1971: MARSHALL MCLUHAN on ADVERTISING | 24 Hours | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

“We are completely immune to advertising, do you know why? It’s all good news.“ - Marshall McLuhan Kenneth Allsop interviews the world’s leading media theorist, Marshall McLuhan - the author of The Mechanical Bride, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Understanding Media, and The Medium is The Massage - about his theories of mass communication. Originally broadcast 19 August, 1971. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive -