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This paper considers some of the interdisciplinary scholarship on radio and sound more generally for the purposes of considering how geopolitical scholarship might reconsider its predominantly visual focus. The first part considers radio and its relationship to studies of propaganda, international diplomacy and even everyday life. Thereafter, attention is given to new themes such as researching radio cultures, broadcasting infrastructure and technology and, finally, the affective impacts of radio on audiences. The conclusion of this paper urges further critical consideration of radio, sound and broadcasting/listener engagement with the well-established geographical literature on music.

This article sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: what is no-man's land? By positing this question, we aim to problematise the taken-for-granted status of no-man's land and its proliferation as a convenient colloquialism that is applied to a vast set of spaces, material conditions and socio-political circumstances. Despite its popular association with the killing fields of the First World War, no-man's land is considered here as a rich analytical category, which resonates in a broader historical and intellectual corpus. We present a conceptual framework for the study of no-man's land as a space produced by simultaneous forces of abandonment and enclosure. The analysis explores the function of no-man's lands as a critical quality that bears on concrete spatio-political realities. In doing so, we aim to open up future research avenues that will further deepen the conceptual and analytical challenges of no-man's lands in the 21st century.

India offers special opportunities for the development of broadcasting. Its distances and wide spaces alone make it a promising field. In India's remote villages there are many who, after the day's work is done, find time hangs nearly enough upon their hands, and there must be many officials and others whose duties carry them into out-of-the-way places where they crave for the company of their friends and the solace of human companionship. There are of course, too, in many households, those whom social custom debars from taking part in recreation outside their own homes. To all these and many more broadcasting will be a blessing and a boon of real value. Both for entertainment and for education its possibilities are great, and yet we perhaps scarcely realise how great they are. Broadcasting in India is today in its infancy, but I have little doubt that before many years are past, the numbers of its audience will have increased tenfold, and that this new application of science will have its devotees in every part of India. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

This note considers the 10–11th March 2013 Falkland Islands referendum. As accredited observers, the authors were granted access not only to the work of the international observation mission but also the actual organisation of the referendum itself. The background to the referendum is explained and thereafter the result and longer-term significance is considered. Notwithstanding Argentine opposition to the referendum, the latter was widely considered within the Falkland Islands and beyond to be the most significant event since the 1982 South Atlantic conflict.

India offers special opportunities for the development of broadcasting. Its distances and wide spaces alone make it a promising field. In India's remote villages there are many who, after the day's work is done, find time hangs nearly enough upon their hands, and there must be many officials and others whose duties carry them into out-of-the-way places where they crave for the company of their friends and the solace of human companionship. There are of course, too, in many households, those whom social custom debars from taking part in recreation outside their own homes. To all these and many more broadcasting will be a blessing and a boon of real value. Both for entertainment and for education its possibilities are great, and yet we perhaps scarcely realise how great they are. Broadcasting in India is today in its infancy, but I have little doubt that before many years are past, the numbers of its audience will have increased tenfold, and that this new application of science will have its devotees in every part of India.

The BBC has a long, complex and contested history in South Asia. From the earliest days of broadcasting, the BBC and its Director-General, John Reith, were the éminences grises behind the development of radio services within British India and were fundamental to the emergence of All India Radio (AIR) during the early 1930s (Pinkerton 2008b). The role of BBC broadcasters and administrators continued up to, and after, India's independence in 1947. However, with escalating Cold War tension during the 1950s, the BBC's continued involvement in India and Pakistan became profoundly politicised and, by the 1970s, was implicated in the practice of 'new kinds' of imperial interference in South Asia.

This thesis is concerned with the BBC World Service and corresponding academic and policy-relevant debates surrounding 'radio power' and public diplomacy. Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the World Service (previously the Empire Service) has been intimately connected to Britain and its international relationships with and beyond the British Empire. Drawing upon critical geopolitics and media/broadcasting studies literature, the thesis investigates the role that radio (and broadcasting networks) played in representing Britain and overseas communities in the twentieth century - a time when Britain's Empire was being dismantled and a Cold War geopolitical order was being established. It is contended that 'critical' and 'popular' geopolitics need to better understand the nature and potential significance of radio, which is quite distinct from other media such as television and/or film. Two case studies facilitate these aims. First, the development of the Empire Service is considered in the Falkland Islands during the 1920s-1930s. Under the guidance of a pioneering Colonial Governor, Falkland Islands broadcasting became a recognised model throughout the Empire, and a key driver from the BBC's burgeoning Empire/World Service. Later events, such as the Falklands conflict, affirm radio's importance in keeping military personnel and political leaders informed of key strategic events (not uncontroversially), but also in arming communities with the tools of 'radio resistance'. The second case study involves colonial and post-independence India, and seeks to better understand how the BBC used radio to promote colonial governance and then, subsequently, resist accusations of political (anti-Indian) interference and neo-imperialism. Local-language broadcasting is highly significant here, and is considered alongside English-language output between the years 1965-1975.