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40 Watts from Nowhere : A Journey into Pirate Radioby Sue CarpenterISBN 0743229886 (0-7432-2988-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: '40 Watts from Nowhere : A Journey into Pirate Radio'Book summary:When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start her own radio station, everyone laughed. Getting on the air (legitimately) in San Francisco was a multimillion-dollar ambition. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive techies and pirate-radio gurus, Sue built her first transmitter in her hilltop San Francisco apartment and launched KPBJ, enlisting friends as DJs. A few months later, Sue landed a magazine job in Los Angeles, took her transmitter with her, and established KBLT.
From these humble beginnings KBLT emerged as one of L.A.'s best-loved radio stations, staffed with more than a hundred DJs and supported by major music labels eager to reach a different kind of audience. The station expanded its playlist from indie rock to an eclectic mix of jazz, hip-hop, electronica, and countless other styles. In the three and a half years before the FCC finally caught up with Sue, KBLT went from interviewing unknowns to hosting live performances by the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- without ever leaving Sue's apartment.
40 Watts from Nowhere is Sue's frank and hilarious account of her bizarre double life during the height of California's pirate-radio boom: journalist by day, counterculture icon by night. It's an amazing true story, one that will instantly appeal to music fans -- and free spirits -- everywhere. [via]
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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artistsby Terry GrossISBN 1401300103 (1-4013-0010-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists'Book summary:A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air.
Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has interviewed many of our most celebrated writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists. Her show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, is one of National Public Radio's most popular programs. More than four million people tune in to the show, which is broadcast on over 400 NPR stations across the country.
Gross is known for her thoughtful, probing interviewing style. In her trusted company, even the most reticent guest relaxes and opens up. But Gross doesn't shy away from controversy, and her questions can be tough -- too tough, apparently, for Bill O'Reilly, who abruptly terminated his conversation with her. Her interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss, which is included in the book, prompted Entertainment Weekly to name Simmons its male "Crackpot of the Year."
For All I Did Was Ask, Gross has selected more than three dozen of her best interviews -- ones of lasting relevance that are as lively on the page as they were on the air. Each is preceded by a personal introduction in which she reveals why a particular guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. And in an introductory chapter, the normally self-effacing Gross does something you're unlikely ever to hear her do on Fresh Air -- she discusses her approach to interviewing, revealing a thing or two about herself in the bargain.
The collection focuses on luminaries from the art and entertainment world, including actors, comedians, writers, visual artists, and musicians, such as:
--Conan O'Brien
--Chris Rock
--Michael Caine
--Dennis Hopper
--Dustin Hoffman
--Jodie Foster
--John Updike
--Mary Karr
--Mario Puzo
--Nick Hornby
--Chuck Close
--Eric Clapton
--George Clinton
--Sonny Rollins
--Samuel L. Jackson
--Johnny Cash
--Isabella Rossellini
--Divine
--Uta Hagen
--Carol Shields [via]More editions of All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists:
Almost Totally Complete Im Sorryby Tim Brooke-TaylorISBN 0752831844 (0-7528-3184-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Antique Radio Restoration Guideby David JohnsonISBN 0870696386 (0-87069-638-6)
Softcover, Krause Pubns Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antique Radio Restoration Guide'Book summary:Tune in to this excellent book on restoring, repairing, and refinishing those charming radios of the past. Discover an exciting program of basic, easy-to-follow techniques for repairing circuitry, troubleshooting, and cleaning up those radio treasures. [via]
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Broadcasting in America: A Survey of Electronic Mediaby Sydney W. Head, Thomas Spann, Michael A. McGregorISBN 0618054197 (0-618-05419-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broadcasting in America: A Survey of Electronic Media'Book summary:The best-selling text in the field for nearly 40 years, Broadcasting in America offers authoritative coverage of electronic media both as products of contemporary social forces and as social forces in their own right. While taking a domestic focus, the text also offers an entire chapter on issues affecting international broadcasting. The text's multidisciplinary perspective enables students to examine the role electronic media play in such academic areas as economics, law, history, and social sciences. In addition, the authors provide the most up-to-date information on broadcasting trends, including wireless communication.
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Charlie All Nightby Jennifer CrusieISBN 077832107X (0-7783-2107-X)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
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The Complete Shortwave Listener's Handbookby Hank Bennett, Harry L. HelmsISBN 0830612556 (0-8306-1255-6)
Softcover, Tab Books
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill - The Complete Shortwave Listener's Handbook: ISBN 0830603557 (0-8306-0355-7)
Hardcover, Tab Books - The Complete Shortwave Listener's Handbook: ISBN 0830612556 (0-8306-1255-6)
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Don't Panicby Neil GaimanISBN 1840235012 (1-84023-501-2)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Panic'Book summary:"It's all devastatingly true - except the bits that are lies. - Douglas Adams
Don't Panic celebrates the life of an ape-descended human called Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea.
This is also the story of what that idea became: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the original radio series which started it all, and the five book trilogy', the TV series, almost-film, computer game, towel and website that followed. Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman also tells the whole story of Liff, the Universe of Dirk Gently, and everything else Douglas ever worked on. [via] 
Don't Touch That Dialby J. Fred MacDonaldISBN 0882295284 (0-88229-528-4)
Hardcover, Burnham Inc Pub
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Don't Touch That Dial!: Radio Programming in American Life, 1920-1960by J. Fred MacDonaldISBN 0882296736 (0-88229-673-6)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radioby Tom LewisISBN 0060981199 (0-06-098119-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Encyclopedia of American Radio: An A-Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Sternby Ron LackmannISBN 081604077X (0-8160-4077-X)
Softcover, Facts on File
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Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Mediaby Eric KlinenbergISBN 0805078193 (0-8050-7819-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media'Book summary:[via]A groundbreaking investigative work by a critically acclaimed sociologist on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans
For the residents of Minot, North Dakota, Clear Channel Communications is synonymous with disaster. Early in the morning of January 18, 2002, a train derailment sent a cloud of poisonous gas drifting toward the small town. Minot's fire and rescue departments attempted to reach Clear Channel, which owned and operated all six local commercial radio stations, to warn residents of the approaching threat. But in the age of canned programming and virtual DJs, there was no one in the conglomerate's studio to take the call. The people of Minot were taken unawares. The result: one death and more than a thousand injuries.
Opening with the story of the Minot tragedy, Eric Klinenberg's Fighting for Air takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news stations, and copycat newspapers to show how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg argues that the demise of truly local media stems from the federal government's malign neglect, as the agencies charged with ensuring diversity and open competition have ceded control to the very conglomerates that consistently undermine these values and goals.
Such "big media" may not be here to stay, however. Fighting for Air delivers a call to action, revealing a rising generation of new media activists and citizen journalists--a coalition of liberals and conservatives--who are demanding and even creating the local coverage they need and deserve.More editions of Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media:
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Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel : The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Showby Michael BarsonISBN 0679720367 (0-679-72036-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voicesby Xinran Xue, Esther TyldesleyISBN 1400030803 (1-4000-3080-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices'Book summary:For seven years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast between 10 and 12 at night, Words on the Night Breeze soon became famous all over China for its powerful, honest discussions of what it means to be a woman in today's China. It started in 1990, a time when China seemed to be 'opening up', both for the Chinese and for the world. Xinran's programme revealed aspects of women's lives that had never been talked about in public before. She felt as if she was opening a tiny window into a huge fortress whose inhabitants had never before communicated with the outside world. Soon she was receiving over two hundred letters a day from women telling her their stories. She realised that she knew far less than she had thought about what it means to be a Chinese woman and embarked on a journey of discovery to collect their stories. The stories presented here tell of almost inconceivable suffering: rape, sexual abuse, the separation of parents from their children, the suppression of human emotion in order to survive the Communist regime - never before have the tortured souls of Chinese women been laid so bare. And yet this is also a book about love - about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. And then there is Xinran herself: an extraordinary woman who, despite her own unhappy past, has given her life to saving the stories of Chinese women from oblivion,. [via]
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The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonographyby Roger Wilmut, Jimmy GraftonISBN 0860518361 (0-86051-836-1)
Softcover, Parkwest Pubns
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The Goon Show Scriptsby Spike MilliganISBN 0713000767 (0-7130-0076-7)
Hardcover, Woburn Press
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Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio's Golden Ageby Leonard MaltinISBN 0451200780 (0-451-20078-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great American Broadcast : A Celebration of Radio's Golden Age'Book summary:The popular authority on movies, television, and video now tunes in to the Golden Age of Radio. This fascinating and long-overdue celebration of the way things were includes...
" Behind the scenes stories about Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and many, many others
" The history of radio soap operas, westerns, variety shows, comedies, and thrillers
" Hundreds of revealing personal interviews with radio legends
" More than 125 rare photographs and illustrations
"Maltin brings boundless enthusiasm and encyclopedic recall to to the golden age of broadcasting."-New York Times
"Fans of radio's golden age will find this valentine right up their alley."-Entertainment Weekly
"[A] fascinating anecdotal history."-New York Daily News
"Will fascinate film buffs."-Los Angeles Times
"Highly recommended."-Larry King
"A delightful, heavily illustrated history of radio."-Publishers Weekly [via]More editions of Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio's Golden Age:
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Hello World: A Life in Ham Radioby Danny Gregory, Paul SahreISBN 156898281X (1-56898-281-X)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio'Book summary:To an outsider, the world of ham radio is one of basement transmitters, clunky microphones, Morse code, and crackly, possibly clandestine, worldwide communications, a world both mysterious and geeky. But the real story is a lot more interesting: indeed, there are more than two million operators worldwide, including people like Walter Cronkite and Priscilla Presley. Gandhi had a ham radio, as do Marlon Brando and Juan Carlos, king of Spain.
Hello World takes us on a seventy-year odyssey through the world of ham radio. From 1927 until his death in 2001, operator Jerry Powell transmitted radio signals from his bedroom in Hackensack, New Jersey, touring the worlds most remote locations and communicating with people from Greenland to occupied Japan. Once he made contact with a fellow ham operator, he exchanged postcards known as QSLs cards with them. For seven decades, Powell collected hundreds of these cards, documenting his fascinating career in amateur radio and providing a dazzling graphic inventory of people and places far flung.
This book is both an introduction to the fascinating world of ham and a visual feast for anyone interested in the universal language of graphic design. [via]More editions of Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio:
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas Adams, Steve Leialoha, John CarnellISBN 1563892715 (1-56389-271-5)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'Book summary:How shall we begin?
This is the story of a book called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxynot an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
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This is the story of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, with the words dont panic written on the front. ( A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. )
In their travels they meet:
"Zaphod Beeblebroxthe two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the Galaxy
"TrillianZaphods girl friend, formerly Tricia McMillan, whom Arthur once tried to pick up at a cocktail party
"Marvina paranoid android, a brilliant but chronically depressed robot
"Veet Voojagigformer graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years
To find the answers to these burning questions: Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. But remember . . . dont panic, and dont forget to bring a towel. [via]More editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1400052920 (1-4000-5292-0)
Hardcover, Harmony Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1400052939 (1-4000-5293-9)
Hardcover, Harmony Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0345391802 (0-345-39180-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0345418913 (0-345-41891-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0613064054 (0-613-06405-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0671746065 (0-671-74606-5)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 0517542099 (0-517-54209-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1563892715 (1-56389-271-5)
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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: ISBN 1400052920 (1-4000-5292-0)
Hitchhikers Companion Original Galaxy Radio Scriptsby Douglas AdamsISBN 0318047659 (0-318-04765-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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I Am an Oil Tankerby GloverISBN 0091877865 (0-09-187786-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am an Oil Tanker'Book summary:"Everybody has a favourite station", writes Fi Glover in her bizarrely titled travel book I am an Oil Tanker. On arriving in a city for the first time, some people get a feel for the place by climbing the tallest building, others browse supermarket shelves or head for the nearest bar--Radio Five presenter Fi Glover asks her taxi driver what they listen to and scans the dial. This obsession has evolved into I am an Oil Tanker--part biography, part lightweight travelogue and partly an analysis and history of global radio.
Fi's search for the "perfect" station begins dully with visits to Blue Danube Radio in Vienna and a Radio Five football broadcast. However, things get rapidly more interesting with Irish UN troops doubling as volunteer DJs at Camp Shamrock in Southern Lebanon, line-dance-loving community shows in North Carolina and paranormal programmes from the Nevada desert. Out of "sheer curiosity" she heads for Palm Springs to listen to its Frank Sinatra station for retirees and to Monsterrat to hear one that kept broadcasting right through the volcanic eruption. While she doesn't visit many of the world's 35,000 registered stations, she does experience some wonderfully surreal diversions--from shoe-shopping with Reuters' man in Beirut to driving out of Las Vegas with a stranger called Jolene.
Fi's travelogue resembles her radio shows. The segments the stations are segued together with a "funny thing happened to me on the way to the studio" anecdotes and filled out with amusing asides. She writes as if talking to her listeners: musing over hotel room service, airline meals and rainy GLR outside broadcasts, and making you feel by the end that you know her intimately.
Not that I am a Oil Tanker is all flippant stuff--Fi also touches on serious matters like the role "hate radio" played in the Rwandan genocide or request shows for the "missing" in Columbia. However, overall this is mostly an irreverent, humorous personal rant in the Tony Hawkes Round Ireland with a Fridge vein. --Sarah Champion [via]
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John Peel: Margrave of the Marshesby John Peel, Sheila RavenscroftISBN 1556526520 (1-55652-652-0)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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Kitty And the Midnight Hourby Carrie VaughnISBN 0446616419 (0-446-61641-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Kitty Goes to Washingtonby Carrie VaughnISBN 0446616427 (0-446-61642-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Lake Wobegon Daysby Garrison KeillorISBN 0670805149 (0-670-80514-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lake Wobegon Days'Book summary:One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. Keillor's tales present a wryly affectionate and humorous chronicle of an imaginary town in the American Midwest. [via]
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Letter From America 1946-2004by Alistair CookeISBN 1400044022 (1-4000-4402-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letter From America 1946-2004'Book summary:For over half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained and informed millions of listeners around the world in his weekly BBC radio program Letter from America. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the worlds best-loved broadcasters, and a foreigner who helped Americans better understand themselves.
Here, in print for the first time, is a collection of Cookes finest reports that celebrates the inimitable style of this wise and avuncular reporter. Beginning with his first letter in 1946, a powerful description of American GIs returning home, and ending with his last broadcast in February 2004, in which he expressed his views on the United States presidential campaign, the collection captures Cookes unique voice and gift for telling stories.
Gathered in this volume are encounters with the many presidents Cooke knew, from Roosevelt to Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush, both Senior and Junior. His friends are warmly recollectedamong them Leonard Bernstein, Philip Larkin, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin, and Katharine Hepburn. We observe a variety of political landmarksthe Vietnam War, Watergate, Cookes remarkable eyewitness account of Robert Kennedys assassination, through to the scandals that surrounded Clinton and the conflict in Iraq. His moving evocation of the events of September 11 and its aftermath remains essential reading, while his recollections of holidays and sporting events remind us of Cookes delight in the pleasures of everyday life.
Imbued with Alistair Cookes good humor, elegance, and understanding, Letter from America, 19462004 is a captivating insight into the heart of a nation and a fitting tribute to the man who was for so many the most reassuring voice of our times. [via]More editions of Letter From America 1946-2004:
Listening in: Radio and American Imaginationby Susan DouglasISBN 0816644233 (0-8166-4423-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Sternby Susan J. DouglasISBN 0812933001 (0-8129-3300-1)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Little Book of Mornington Crescentby Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Jon Naismith, Iain PattinsonISBN 0752818643 (0-7528-1864-3)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Little Book of Mornington Crescentby Tim Brooke-TaylorISBN 0752844229 (0-7528-4422-9)
Softcover, Orion Pub Co
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The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Ken GreenwaldISBN 0792451074 (0-7924-5107-4)
Hardcover, Bdd Promotional Book Co
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The Man Born to Be Kingby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0898703077 (0-89870-307-7)
Softcover, Ignatius Press
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Margrave of the Marshesby John Peel, Sheila RavenscroftISBN 0593052528 (0-593-05252-8)
Hardcover, Bantam
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Miss Americaby Howard SternISBN 0061095508 (0-06-109550-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Miss America/Shrink Wrapped Bookby Howard SternISBN 0061012343 (0-06-101234-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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More Goon Show Scriptsby Spike MilliganISBN 0713000880 (0-7130-0088-0)
Hardcover, Woburn Press
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The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1by Simon GarfieldISBN 0571194354 (0-571-19435-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Night Listenerby Armistead MaupinISBN 006093090X (0-06-093090-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Listener'Book summary:"I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. Gabriel's most sympathetic listener is Pete Lomax, a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin whose own horrific past has left him wise and generous beyond his years. But when this virtual father-son relationship is rocked by doubt, a desperate search for the truth ensues. Welcome to the complex, vertiginous world of The Night Listener . [via]
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On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radioby John DunningISBN 0195076788 (0-19-507678-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio'Book summary:Now long out of print, John Dunning's Tune in Yesterday was the definitive one-volume reference on old-time radio broadcasting. Now, in On the Air, Dunning has completely rethought this classic work, reorganizing the material and doubling its coverage, to provide a richer and more informative account of radio's golden age.
Here are some 1,500 radio shows presented in alphabetical order. The great programs of the '30s, '40s, and '50s are all here--Amos 'n' Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Lone Ranger, Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour, and The March of Time, to name only a few. For each, Dunning provides a complete broadcast history, with the timeslot, the network, and the name of the show's advertisers. He also lists major cast members, announcers, producers, directors, writers, and sound effects people--even the show's theme song. There are also umbrella entries, such as "News Broadcasts," which features an engaging essay on radio news, with capsule biographies of major broadcasters, such as Lowell Thomas and Edward R. Murrow. Equally important, Dunning provides a fascinating account of each program, taking us behind the scenes to capture the feel of the performance, such as the ghastly sounds of Lights Out (a horror drama where heads rolled and bones crunched), and providing engrossing biographies of the main people involved in the show.
A wonderful read for everyone who loves old-time radio, On the Air is a must purchase for all radio hobbyists and anyone interested in 20th-century American history. It is an essential reference work for libraries and radio stations. [via]More editions of On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio:
The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scriptsby Douglas Adams, Geoffrey PerkinsISBN 0517559501 (0-517-55950-1)
Softcover, Harmony Books
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Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Storyby Paul AurandtISBN 0553259628 (0-553-25962-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story'Book summary:Paul Harvey is the most listened-to radio personality in America. Millions of loyal listeners tune in every week to hear his unique blend of news and views. Now, in Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story you'll find eighty-two astonishing true stories of the famous and infamous, the outrageous and the unknown. Each unforgettable tale has for its startling punch line the wild and wonderful solution to a real-life mystery. The 1950's presidential candidate who killed a teenage girl. The governor of New York who dressed up like a woman--at taxpayer's expense. The queen whose secret photo collection--if exposed--would shock the world. The American founding father who kept his wife locked in the cellar. The best-selling mystery writer who tried to get away . . . with murder! From present-day shockers to historical puzzlers, Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story reveals the untold story behind some of history's strangest little-known facts. [via]
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Private Partsby Howard SternISBN 0671009443 (0-671-00944-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Parts'Book summary:It has been said that you either love or loathe Howard Stern, but it's quite possible to love and loathe him after reading this autobiography. Stern sets out to offend as many people as possible (and he succeeds admirably), but two things prevent this book, and Stern, from becoming unbearable. First, he is as candid about himself as he is about the people he attacks. He describes his tortured adolescence, his physical inadequacies, and his sexual proclivities in such breathtaking detail that it's hard not to like the guy. Stern also avoids the bitterness that characterizes many of the "shock-radio" DJs who have attempted to follow in his footsteps. He can be cruel, but he generally reserves cruelty for people whose fame makes them open targets, and the way he dismantles the whole idea of "celebrity" is hilarious. Howard Stern is like the kid at school who could fart the national anthem--you can't help but laugh at what he does, even though you know you shouldn't. [via]
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Public Radio: Behind the Voicesby Lisa PhillipsISBN 1593151438 (1-59315-143-8)
Hardcover, Vanguard Pr
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Radio: An Illustrated Guideby Jessica Abel, Ira GlassISBN 0967967104 (0-9679671-0-4)
Hardcover, W B E Z Alliance Inc
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Radio on: A Listener's Diaryby Sarah VowellISBN 0312183011 (0-312-18301-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Raised on Radio: In Quest of the Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Amos "N" Andy, the Shadow, Mary Noble, the Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Bill Stern, Our Miss bby Gerald NachmanISBN 0520223039 (0-520-22303-9)
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The Science of Radioby Paul J. NahinISBN 1563963477 (1-56396-347-7)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Seizing the Air Waves: A Free Radio Handbookby Ron Sakolsky, Stephen DuniferISBN 1873176996 (1-873176-99-6)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Signor Marconi's Magic Box: How an Amateur Inventor Defied Scientists and Began the Radio Revolutionby Gavin WeightmanISBN 0007130058 (0-00-713005-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Signor Marconi's Magic Box: How an Amateur Inventor Defied Scientists and Began the Radio Revolution'Book summary:Gavin Weightman tells the story of how Guglielmo Marconi invented the wireless - and how it amused Queen Victoria, saved the lives of the Titanic survivors, tracked down criminals and began the radio revolution. The wireless was one of the most fabulous inventions of the 19th century: the public thought it was magic, the popular newspapers regarded it as miraculous, and the leading scientists of the day (in Europe and America) could not understand how it worked. In 1897, when the first wireless station was established by Marconi in a few rooms of the Royal Needles Hotel on the Isle of Wight, nobody knew how far these invisible waves could travel through the "ether", carrying Morse coded messages decipherable at a receiving station. (The definitive answer was not discovered until the 1920s, by which time radio had become a sophisticated industry filling the airwaves with a cacophony of sounds - most of it American). Marconi himself was the son of an Italian father and an Irish mother (from the Jameson whiskey family); he grew up in Italy and was fluent in Italian and English, but it was in England that his invention first caught on. Marconi was in his early twenties at the time (he died in 1937). With the "new telegraphy" came the real prospect of replacing the network of telegraphic cables that criss-crossed land and sea at colossal expense. Initially it was the great ships that benefited from the new invention - including the Titanic, whose survivors owed their lives to the wireless. [via]
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Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention of the 19th Century and the Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked a Revolutionby Gavin WeightmanISBN 0306812754 (0-306-81275-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Talk: NPR's Susan Stamberg Considers All Thingsby Susan StambergISBN 0399518738 (0-399-51873-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Thunderstruckby Erik LarsonISBN 1400080665 (1-4000-8066-5)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thunderstruck'Book summary:A true story of love, murder, and the end of the worlds great hush
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two menHawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communicationwhose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, the kindest of men, nearly commits the perfect crime.
With his superb narrative skills, Erik Larson guides these parallel narratives toward a relentlessly suspenseful meeting on the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate. Thunderstruck presents a vibrant portrait of an era of séances, science, and fog, inhabited by inventors, magicians, and Scotland Yard detectives, all presided over by the amiable and fun-loving Edward VII as the world slid inevitably toward the first great war of the twentieth century. Gripping from the first page, and rich with fascinating detail about the time, the people, and the new inventions that connect and divide us, Thunderstruck is splendid narrative history from a master of the form. [via]More editions of Thunderstruck:
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Travels With My Radioby Fi GloverISBN 0091882745 (0-09-188274-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels With My Radio'Book summary:"Everybody has a favourite station", writes Fi Glover in Travels with My Radio. On arriving in a city for the first time some people get a feel for the place by climbing the tallest building, others browse supermarket shelves or head for the nearest bar--Radio Five presenter Fi Glover asks her taxi driver what they listen to and scans the dial. This obsession has evolved into Travels with My Radio--part biography, part lightweight travelogue and partly an analysis and history of global radio.
Fi's search for the "perfect" station begins dully with visits to Blue Danube Radio in Vienna and a Radio Five football broadcast. However, things get rapidly more interesting with Irish UN troops doubling as volunteer DJs at Camp Shamrock in Southern Lebanon, line-dance-loving community shows in North Carolina and paranormal programmes from the Nevada desert. Out of "sheer curiosity" she heads for Palm Springs to listen to its Frank Sinatra station for retirees and to Monsterrat to hear a station that kept broadcasting right through the volcanic eruption. While she doesn't visit many of the world's 35,000 registered stations, she does experience some wonderfully surreal diversions--from shoe-shopping with Reuters' man in Beirut to driving out of Las Vegas with a stranger called Jolene.
Fi's travelogue resembles her radio shows. The segments are segued together with "a funny thing happened to me on the way to the studio" anecdotes and filled out with amusing asides. She writes as if talking to her listeners: musing over hotel room service, airline meals and rainy GLR outside broadcasts--making you feel that you know her intimately by the end.
Not that Travels with My Radio is all flippant stuff--Fi also touches on serious matters like the role "hate radio" played in the Rwandan genocide or request shows for the "missing" in Columbia. However, overall this is mostly an irreverent, humorous personal rant in the Tony Hawkes Round Ireland with a Fridge vein. --Sarah Champion [via]
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Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartimeby John DunningISBN 074340615X (0-7434-0615-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyby Douglas AdamsISBN 0345453743 (0-345-45374-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Under Milk Wood, a Play for Voicesby Dylan ThomasISBN 0811202097 (0-8112-0209-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Milk Wood, a Play for Voices'Book summary:Completed just before his death in 1953, this work gives the fullest expression to Thomas' sense of the magnificent flavor and variety of life.A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is "lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality" (The New Statesman and Nation). [via]
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Under Milkwoodby Dylan ThomasISBN 046004270X (0-460-04270-X)
Hardcover, Dent
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Milkwood'Book summary:In 1951, two years before his death, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of it'. The work was UNDER MILK WOOD - an orchestration of voices, sights and sounds that conjure up the dreams and waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day. Includes an introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Thomas's life and times. [via]
The Voice of the Crystalby H. Peter FriedrichsISBN 0967190509 (0-9671905-0-9)
Softcover, H Peter Friedrichs
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of Princess Dianaby Joe GarnerISBN 1570713286 (1-57071-328-6)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11by Joe GarnerISBN 1570719748 (1-57071-974-8)
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of John F. Kennedy Jr.by Joe GarnerISBN 1570715351 (1-57071-535-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of John F. Kennedy Jr.'Book summary:Beginning with the explosion of the dirigible Hindenburg in 1937, this book and double-CD collection of audio broadcasts recalls a series of dramatic events so urgent that they interrupted scheduled broadcasting in America. The text of this package includes capsule explanations of such events as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of Elvis, accompanied by dramatic black-and-white stock photos. Introduced by the sonorous voice of TV journalist Bill Kurtis, the recordings of the news broadcasts revive the panic and thrill of some of the defining moments (mostly American) of the 20th century. This updated second edition includes three new events: the impeachment of President Clinton, the tragic shootings at Columbine High School, and the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. in an airplane crash. New recordings from the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the Apollo 13 mission, and the Munich Olympics tragedy have also been added.
We Interrupt This Broadcast offers, in some ways, a strange view of the past. News that interrupts broadcasts is always sensational and usually tragic. Of the 41 recordings, only five or so don't involve assassinations, explosions, death, or defeat. Furthermore, only the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana represent the female side of modern events. Nevertheless, these recordings will fascinate many listeners too young to have heard the original broadcasts, and those who were alive at the time might enjoy hearing them again in all their crackling, nostalgic glory. --Maria Dolan [via]
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WLT: A Radio Romanceby Garrison KeillorISBN 0140103805 (0-14-010380-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'WLT: A Radio Romance'Book summary:In the spring of 1926, the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and launch station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) to rescuer their failing restaurant and become the Sandwich Kings of South Minneapolis. For the next quarter century, the Friendly Neighbor station produces a dazzling array of shows and stars, including Leo LaValley, Dad Benson, Wingo Beals, Slim Graves and Little Buddy, chain-smoking child star Marjery Moore, and blind baseball announcer Buck Steller.[via]Francis With, a shy young man from North Dakota, entranced by radio, gets into WLT through his uncle Art and quickly becomes the Soderbjerg's right hand. Soon Francis is a budding announcer adored by Lily Dale, the crippled nightingale of WLT kept hidden from her fans, whose firing contributes to the downfall of the station. And then comes television.
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