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The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1929. It was developed as the medium for reproducing broadcast talks, initially on radio, but in later years television as well, and was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine Radio Times. The Listener is one of the few means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts. In addition to commenting on the intellectual broadcasts of the week, The Listener also previewed major literary and musical shows and regularly reviewed new books. This archive reproduces the complete run of the publication, in an accessible and easy-to-use online research environment, providing an invaluable resource for those researching the critical reception of visual arts and wider areas of culture from politics to science, as well as how the wider public responded to them.