Paul Long

Paul Long is Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries and Director, Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre. He arrived in Melbourne at the end of 2019 having lived and worked in Birmingham for most of his life. He has published widely on issues in popular cultural history, participation, and creative work. He is founding co-editor of the Journal of Beatles Studies (Liverpool University Press), which has just published its inaugural edition. He is currently researching the role of migrants in the creative and cultural industries as well as Australian home-made, amateur, and DIY creative production.

Paul Long reviews ‘Listen In: How radio changed the home’ by Beaty Rubens

May 2025, no. 475 • 25 April 2025

That the majority of the sounds and experiences of the early years of radio are lost to us poses considerable challenges for historians. The losses include the expressions of local innovations and experimental broadcasts across global contexts that predate the establishment of organisations, often with ambitions of a national reach, such as the BBC (1922), the ABC (1923), and Radio Bangkok of Phay ... (read more)

Paul Long reviews ‘The BBC: A people’s history’ by David Hendy, and ‘This Is the BBC: Entertaining the nation, speaking for Britain, 1922–2022’ by Simon Potter

December 2022, no. 449 • 25 November 2022

This year, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) celebrates its centenary as the world’s largest and oldest broadcasting institution (the US company NBC was founded four years later, in 1926). Whether it will reach its bicentenary, or even have another ten years of life in anything like its current form is a question facing other British institutions such as the Conservative Party, the mona ... (read more)