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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist
£18.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800182653 | ISBN 10: 1800182651
'As hilarious, charming, eccentric, informative, addictive and delightful as the show itself' STEPHEN FRY Much-loved radio drama The Archers has been at the heart of British life for over seventy years, and the momentous events and changes o ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474612012 | ISBN 10: 1474612016
For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio’s flagship programmes. It takes listeners to parts of the world they’ve never been, and perhaps never would go in their lives: war zones, refugee camps, el ... more
View book details£9.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785940293 | ISBN 10: 1785940295
The rhythmic lullaby of ‘North Utsire, South Utsire’ has been lulling the nation’s insomniacs to sleep for over 90 years. It has inspired songs, poetry and imaginations across the globe – as well as providing a very real service for the natio ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571327898 | ISBN 10: 0571327893
Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be c ... more
View book details£20.00 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781685754 | ISBN 10: 1781685754
This collection of the legendary thinker’s radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking. Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renown ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780753828939 | ISBN 10: 0753828936
Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker charts his 30 years in showbiz. Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine journalism, with the founding o ... more
View book details£18.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906217181 | ISBN 10: 1906217181
A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great Humphrey Lyttelton's last book, a sparkling autobiographical kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes and entertaining stories from his colourful life - from his childhood as the son of an Eton ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099505372 | ISBN 10: 0099505371
Who is Radio 4's 'fourteen-stone budgie'? How did Phyllis Willis and Mavis Davis make announcer Charlotte Green lose her cool? What does 'Ruth' really think about The Archers? When did Today stop having a keep-fit spot? And who was the Spam Fritte ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780552551199 | ISBN 10: 0552551198
Despite the number of claims in publishers' blurbs, not many people actually achieve the staus of legend in their own lifetime. Fewer still deserve that status. John Peel is the exception who proves that rule, a Great Briton whose contribution to Bri ... more
View book details£16.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781904999379 | ISBN 10: 1904999379
Intrigues, threats, boarding parties, smuggling, shipwreck, danger and adventure on the high seas - they all form part of the remarkable story of the pop radio pirates. During the 1960s and '70s, they broadcast their programmes from storm-lashed rad ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780852558287 | ISBN 10: 0852558287
Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and "development" on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international broadcasters being both the barometers and agents of change. This ... more
View book details£19.95 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780906156889 | ISBN 10: 0906156882
El Salvador. The civil war. The guerillas need a radio station to win hearts and minds. Radio Venceremos. An underground station that keeps broadcasting whatever the cost, under helicopter attack, against high-tech jammming, on the run from endless a ... more
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