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  • The Quanderhorn Xperimentations

    ADAPTED BACKWARDS VIA THE FUTURE FROM THE RADIO 4 SERIES BEFORE IT WAS MADEA richer, deeper, more comprehensive exploration of the Quanderhorn phenomenon. With added secrets.England, 1952.A time of peace, regeneration and hope. A Golden Age.Unfortunately, it's been 1952 for the past 65 years.Meet Professor Quanderhorn: a brilliant, maverick scientific genius with absolutely no moral compass. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Going on the Turn

    by Danny Baker ...
    In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner.Along the way this time we encounter, among others, David Bowie, Kanye West (I think), John Cleese, Peter O'Toole, and have several adventures ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Podcasting

    The Audio Media Revolution

    Born out of interviews with the producers of some of the most popular and culturally significant podcasts to date (Welcome to Night Vale, Radiolab, Serial, The Black Tapes, We're Alive, The Heart, The Truth, Lore, Love + Radio, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and others) as well as interviews with executives at some of the most important podcasting institutions and entities (the BBC, Radiotopia, Gimlet ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Radio Psychics

    Mind Reading and Fortune Telling in American Broadcasting, 1920-1940

    When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. These "mentalists," born from ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Iniciación a la Locución

    Si alguna vez te has preguntado ¿Cuándo y cómo se creó la radio? ¿Cuál fue la primera emisora española? ¿Qué papel tuvo la radio en la guerra? ¿Quién tiene la propiedad de las emisoras? ¿Por qué hay emisoras alegales? ¿Por qué hay voces tan bonitas y otras no tanto? ¿Cómo se confecciona un texto de publicidad? ¿Cómo hacer un guión para radio? A éstas y muchas más preguntas que seguro te vendrán a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radiophilia

    Series series The Study of Sound
    A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception. The thrilling experience of tuning in to the live sounds of this new medium prompted strong affective responses in its listeners.This book introduces a new concept of radiophilia, defined as the attachment to, or even a love of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Good Morning Nantwich: Adventures in Breakfast Radio

    by Phill Jupitus ...
    What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ?The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the face of BBC management, this ex-performance poet’s personal crusade against ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

    The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

    'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs saying "hilarious" on them. This is infinitely funnier than any of them.' DAVID BADDIEL***'***The funniest series of books ever written in the English language' RICHARD OSMAN'Hilarious' THE TIMES'Absolute f**king genius' CAITLIN MORAN... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Radioteatro y cultura popular

    El radioteatro argentino en la época de oro (1930-1950)

    El tema que se propone no abunda en material bibliográfico específico. La búsqueda de documentos e investigaciones permitió recopilar un conjunto de textos que incluyen aspectos del radioteatro y la cultura popular. El radioteatro como expresión de algunos elementos de la cultura popular constituye un objeto de investigación cuyas conclusiones pueden enriquecer el conocimiento de la estructura ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Records Truly Is My Middle Name

    When you’re born with the middle name “Records”, your destiny has been chosen for you. John Records Landecker fulfilled his destiny by becoming one of the most respected disc jockeys in radio history. In Landecker’s incredible 40-plus year major market radio career, he lived an amazing life. His former long-time producer, author Rick Kaempfer, has managed to pull those stories out of him in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Something in the Air

    Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation

    by Marc Fisher ...
    A sweeping, anecdotal account of the great sounds and voices of radio–and how it became a bonding agent for a generation of American youthWhen television became the next big thing in broadcast entertainment, everyone figured video would kill the radio star–and radio, period. But radio came roaring back with a whole new concept. The war was over, the baby boom was on, the country was in clover, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Terror on the Air!

    Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952

    The macabre world of monsters, killers on the loose and revenge from beyond the grave existed not only in the movies, but also on the radio before television's dominance in American homes. One of many distinct genres born of early broadcasting, terror-inspiring radio thrilled millions. Nearly 80 such programs, many of enduring sophistication, aired every week in the late 1940s.This first full ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Radio Benjamin

    Translated by Jonathan Lutes ...
    Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic collection demonstrates the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How to Grow as a Musician

    What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed

    A Friendly Guide to Launching and Maintaining Your Musical CareerIt’s tough to make a living from one’s love of music, but Sheila E. Anderson shows readers how to do just that in How to Grow as a Musician. This encouraging yet realistic guide covers everything from developing and learning one’s craft to managing the business aspects of a musical career. This second edition expands on performance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Elvis, Hank, and Me

    Making Musical History On The Louisiana Hayride

    by Horace Logan ...
    In 1948, Horace "Hoss" Logan, a young radio producer in Shreveport, Louisiana, started booking talent for a new weekly music show called the Louisiana Hayride. Performed for a live audience and broadcast nationally over the CBS Radio network, the show became known as the "Cradle of the Stars." In this affectionate memoir, Hoss Logan recalls the Hayride's heyday with behind-the-scenes anecdotes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Birth of Top 40 Radio

    The Storz Stations' Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s

    "Top 40" was the preeminent American radio format of the 1950s and 1960s. Although several radio station group owners offered their own versions of the format, the AM stations owned by Todd Storz and his father were acknowledged as the principal developers of Top 40 radio, and the prime movers in making it a nationwide ratings and revenue success.The Storz Stations in St. Louis, Omaha, New Orleans ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Bite Me!

    The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Take a deep dive into the TV series that brought us all into the Buffyverse—including an episode guide, a trivia quiz, cast bios, and more!It’s been more than a decade since Buffy Summers first walked into the Sunnydale High library and came face-to-face with her Watcher, who told her she was the Chosen One who would save the world from vampires. In the seven seasons that Buffy the Vampire Slayer ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ithaca Radio

    Series series Images of America
    From Long Island to Fiji, college students flocked to the sleepy little town of Ithaca to learn the how-tos and how-not-tos of broadcasting. From that influx came some of the future leaders and celebrities of the broadcasting industry. Television stars were born here, and some of radio�s future stars were nurtured to succeed in an industry that impacts the daily lives of Americans. Ithaca�s rich ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Drop That Knowledge

    Youth Radio Stories

    This is the first book to take us inside Youth Radio for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a unique, Peabody Award-winning organization that produces distinctive content for outlets from National Public Radio to YouTube. Young people come to Youth Radio, headquartered in Oakland, California, from under-resourced public schools and neighborhoods in order to produce media that will transform ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Edward R. Murrow: An American Original

    “Murrow was a cut stone with an astonishing number of facets. He was born in a cabin with an outhouse, and behaved like an English squire, when he was not acting like a lumberjack, or an intellectual gadfly, or a cowboy, or a philosopher, or a daredevil, or a social crusader, or a raconteur, or a hermit. He could be found firing at metal ducks in a Times Square shooting gallery or shooting at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Early Shortwave Stations

    A Broadcasting History Through 1945

    In July 1923, less than three years after Westinghouse station KDKA signed on, company engineer Frank Conrad began regular simulcasting of its programs on a frequency in the newly-discovered shortwave range. It was an important event in a technological revolution that would make dependable worldwide radio communication possible for the first time. In subsequent years, countless stations in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Who's Who in The Archers 2011

    An A-Z of Britain's Most Popular Radio Drama

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Now fully updated, Who's Who in The Archers has become the indispensable companion to life in Britain's best-known village. Whether you need a quick run-down on a new character or a reminder about an on-going relationship, this handy guide is your first reference point. It'll tell you all you need to know about:Harry, the new milkman, who has wasted no time in getting himself noticed.The team ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • New Orleans Radio

    by Dominic Massa ...
    Series series Images of America
    From humble beginnings in a physics lab on the campus of Loyola University came the sounds of the first radio station in the lower Mississippi River Valley when WWL Radio signed on in 1922. The little station would grow into a national powerhouse, with its morning Dawnbusters show and nightly broadcasts from the Blue Room of the Roosevelt Hotel. The city�s second oldest station, WSMB, with studios ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let's Talk Podcasting

    The Essential Guide To Doing It Right

    by Amanda Cupido ...
    New to podcasting? Here’s how to do it right.In Let’s Talk Podcasting, seasoned podcast producer Amanda Cupido gives you the inside scoop on this burgeoning industry’s biggest players and—more importantly—how you can join them. Leading with a solid foundation of podcasting’s history and significance in our increasingly content-hungry world, she provides an invaluable insider’s perspective of what ... Read more

    $9.99 USD