Listener Historical Digital Archive 1929-1991A complete archive of the weekly BBC literature and culture magazine, The Listener. Established in 1929, it documents broadcast talks originally aired on the BBC, initially on radio and later on television. This archive provides access to what in many cases is the only record of early broadcasts. The Listener also previewed major literary and musical broadcasts and reviewed books, featuring such literary notables as W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf and others