An appetite for argument: radio propaganda and food in occupied France

Chadwick, K ORCID: 0000-0002-4892-0418 (2017) An appetite for argument: radio propaganda and food in occupied France. French History, 31 (1). pp. 85-106.

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Abstract

This article focuses on the centrality and the importance of food to wartime radio propaganda, a subject thus far overlooked by scholars. It investigates how the BBC French Service and Vichy addressed the growing challenges of food production and supply in occupied France, each of them competing hard to gain control of discourses about food in a climate of shortage. It examines their respective blame games, as each side held its enemies responsible for France’s food woes. It also considers how both the French Service and Vichy mobilized food issues to speak to the French on trickier questions of national unity and solidarity at a time of domestic crisis, and assesses the problems they faced as they tried to square their claims with the experiences of the wider public. The article thereby offers a fresh understanding of the lived experience of the Occupation and deeper insight into the functioning of wartime radio propaganda.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	15 Feb 2017 11:00
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 07:19
DOI:	10.1093/fh/crw053
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3005819