Presented by Dr Jane Potter, Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, this video and audio podcast looks beyond the War Poets to the important role that books, publishers and the book trade played during the First World War and argues for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public at the time.
Watch and download the podcast at: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/popular-fiction-world-war-one-video.
This podcast is part of the series First World War: New Perspectives available on Oxford Podcasts: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-new-perspectives.