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Octopus Publishing Group For the Love of Radio 4 - The Unofficial Puzzle
Book SynopsisIt’s more than just a radio station – Radio 4 is a celebration of curiosity, knowledge and entertainment, and it’s a beloved soundtrack to life for millions of Britons. But for the moments when you’re not tuning in, how about a puzzle or two to pass the time? From quizzes and riddles to crosswords and sudoku, whether you’re an expert on all things Radio 4 or merely a casual listener, there’s plenty in these pages to tickle your fancy and tease your brain.
£9.49
Atlantic Books No One Listens to Your Dad's Show
Book Synopsis'Christian has achieved something very beautiful and funny with this book, weaving ordinary life and every day sadness into something hopeful and profound. I loved it.' Russell BrandAs a radio DJ in London, Christian O'Connell appeared to have it all. He held the number one spot nationally, with a faithful audience of millions who'd listened to him for years. Celebrities flocked to come on his show and no other radio DJ had won more awards.But not everything was as it seemed. Minutes before going live one morning, something happened that changed everything and led to a decision of seismic proportions. He quit his job, moved to the other side of the world, where no one knew him, and took on the toughest radio market in the world - Australia.Why? is the question he's been asked every day since landing Down Under. Until now he's never shared the real reason.No One Listens to Your Dad's Show is the story of Christian risking everything, uprooting his wife, two daughters and his dog to move to Australia. A move that lands him as a complete unknown in a country where, he soon finds out, no one wants to hear him on the radio.He was failing, fortysomething and falling apart.Until he wasn't.Trade ReviewChristian has achieved something very beautiful and funny with this book, weaving ordinary life and every day sadness into something hopeful and profound. I loved it. -- Russell BrandSmart and funny -- Ricky GervaisReading this book is like spending time with Christian. Funny and inspiring. -- Adam HillsTable of Contentsi: Prologue: My last show on air, London, May 2018 ii: Introduction: The story I don't want to tell you iii: PART ONE 1: The man in the shed 2: Son of Fonzie 3: Mind your language, Prime Minister 4: Halfway dead 5: Leslie and me 6: 'Every time you open your mouth, people will hate you.' iv: PART TWO 7: Come fail with me 8: Pets before dads 9: 520 hours to make it work 10: Nineteen-minute honeymoon 11: Clowns with feelings 12: Notes from Down Under 13: Neighbours 14: Embrace the suck 15: 'Try giving birth.' 16: The biggest decision I had to make 17: Meet my new nemesis 18: Notes from my wife 19: Home alone v: PART THREE 20: Life lessons in a boxing ring 21: Fudge Man save me 22: A disgusting man 23: New besties 24: I bought a house drunk 25: Replaced 26: Building the treehouse 27: The Peter Logan effect 28: Drives with my daughters 29: 'Man Walks into a Radio Station with Ten Thousand Dollars' 30: 'Who's Calling Christian?' vi: Epilogue What happened to me? vii: Some words from the girls viii: Thank-you note
£17.99
Intellect Books Directory of World Cinema: Japan
Book SynopsisFrom the revered classics of Akira Kurosawa to the modern marvels of Takeshi Kitano, the films that have emerged from Japan represent a national cinema that has gained worldwide admiration and appreciation. Directory of World Cinema: Japan provides an insight into the cinema of Japan through reviews of significant titles and case studies of leading directors, alongside explorations of the cultural and industrial origins of key genres. As the inaugural volume of an ambitious series from Intellect documenting world cinema, the directory aims to play a part in moving intelligent, scholarly criticism beyond the academy by building a forum for the study of film that relies on a disciplined theoretical base. It takes the form of an A–Z collection of reviews, longer essays and research resources, accompanied by fifty full-colour film stills highlighting significant films and players. The cinematic lineage of samurai warriors, yakuza enforcers and atomic monsters take their place alongside the politically charged works of the Japanese New Wave, making this a truly comprehensive volume.Trade Review'Editor John Berra announces in the acknowledgments that ‘this volume was never intended to be a conventional film guide’. Rather than the A-Z run through of titles, or a year-by-year account of the highlights, Berra’s Directory offers instead a series of chapters mainly grouped around genres. There is also, though, a section on three key directors (Takeshi Kitano; Satoshi Kon and Akira Kurosawa), a nod to the film of the year (Achilles and the Tortoise) and a chapter on ‘The Art Theatre Guild’.[...] There are also, however, many formal observations and little details of character from the writers that make the book worthwhile, no matter its limitations, none more so than Bob Davis’s astute comments on Oshima’s Boy, with its useful analysis of colour in the film. ' Edinburgh Review 'Editor John Berra announces in the acknowledgments that ‘this volume was never intended to be a conventional film guide’. Rather than the A-Z run through of titles, or a year-by-year account of the highlights, Berra’s Directory offers instead a series of chapters mainly grouped around genres. There is also, though, a section on three key directors (Takeshi Kitano; Satoshi Kon and Akira Kurosawa), a nod to the film of the year (Achilles and the Tortoise) and a chapter on ‘The Art Theatre Guild’.[...] There are also, however, many formal observations and little details of character from the writers that make the book worthwhile, no matter its limitations, none more so than Bob Davis’s astute comments on Oshima’s Boy, with its useful analysis of colour in the film. ' – Tony McKibbin, Edinburgh Review 'The writing throughout is of a consistently high standard, incorporating a range of analytical approaches (be it social-political, aesthetic, or genre-based) according to the writers’ preferences. By focussing mainly on the cultural import of films within specific genres, the directory presents a very catholic selection. Admirably un-snobbish in its treatment of all the covered films, the articles are always marked by the sense that those writing are genuine fans.' -- Tony McKibbin * Edinburgh Review * * Subtitled Online *Table of ContentsIntroduction by the Editor Film of the Year Achilles and the Tortoise Festival Focus Nippon Connection Industry Spotlight The Arts Theatre Guild Cultural Crossover Art & Film Directors Takeshi Kitano Satoshi Kon Akira Kurosawa Alternative Japan Anime / Animation Chambara / Samurai Cinema Contemporary Blockbusters Jidaigeki & Gendaigeki / Period & Contemporary Drama J-Horror / Japanese Horror Kaiju Eiga / Monster Movies Nuberu Bagu / The Japanese New Wave Pinku Eiga / Pink Films Yakuza / Gangster
£44.60
Silman-James Press,U.S. African-American Screen Writers Now:
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£16.19
Great Plains Publications Ltd On the Air: The Golden Age of Manitoba Radio
Book SynopsisBefore the internet, before TV, Manitoba was a hotbed for innovation in radio. These innovations range from the first publically-owned radio station to the first play-by-play broadcast of women's hockey. During World War II, a Winnipeg broadcaster was as well-known in England as Churchill. And Neil Young's very first recording was done at a local station. These are but a few of the stories of early radio in Manitoba. In its first half century, the medium was a powerful, revolutionary force that touched and linked virtually everyone in the province.Trade Review"Veteran broadcaster Garry Moir, familiar to older listeners of CBC, private radio stations in Manitoba and graduates from Red River Community College, manages to touch on the magic the strong connection between listener and host, the business, the politics, the characters and a range of anecdotes and historical firsts to satisfy a wide range of readers with this colourful history." Winnipeg Free Press
£19.51
New Dawn Press Broadcast Journalism: in the 21st Century
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Transcript Verlag Radio as Art: Concepts, Spaces, Practices
Book SynopsisAcoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have brought forth a great number of artistic practices. Up to and into the digital present radio has been and is employed and explored as an apparatus-based structure as well as an expanded model for performance and perception. This volume investigates a broad range of aesthetic experiments with the broadcasting technology of radio, and the use of radio as a means of disseminating artistic concepts. With exemplary case studies, its contributions link conceptual, recipient-response-related, and sociocultural issues to matters of relevance to radio art's mediation.
£35.99
Transcript Verlag Transnationalizing Radio Research – New
Book SynopsisTransnationalizing Radio Research presents a theoretical and methodological guide for exploring radio's multiple "global ages", from its earliest years through its recent digital transformations. It offers radio scholars theoretical tools and concrete case studies for moving beyond national research frames. It gives radio practitioners inspiration for production and archiving, and offers scholars from many disciplines new ways to incorporate radio's vital voices into work on transnational institutions, communities, histories and identities.
£35.99
Lulu.com The Mobile DJ MBA
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£18.95
iUniverse Monitor The Last Great Radio Show
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iUniverse Chicago Top 40 Charts 19801990
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£14.61
iUniverse Monitor Take 2 The revised expanded inside story of network radios greatest program
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Xlibris The PD Chronicles Blatant Confessions of a Radio Guy
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Random House USA Inc Attempting Normal
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERMarc Maron is “a master of spinning humor out of anguish” (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty-five stories from his life and near-death, from his first comedy road trips (with a fugitive junkie comic with a missing tooth) to his love affair with feral animals (his cat rescues are bloody epics) to his surprisingly moving tales of lust, heartbreak, and hope. The stories are united by Maron’s thrilling storytelling style—intensely smart, disarmingly honest, and explosively funny. Together, they add up to a hilarious and moving tale of failing, flailing, and finding a way.Praise for Attempting Normal “I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris “Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.”&mda
£999.99
£28.46
TX Publications Londons Pirate Pioneers The illegal broadcasters
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Legare Street Press Production and Direction of Radio Programs
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Legare Street Press Radio and the Printed Page
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£26.55
LEGARE STREET PR Production and Direction of Radio Programs
£19.90
Creative Media Partners, LLC Futuria Fantasia
£13.22
Creative Media Partners, LLC The Fantasy Fan Volume 1 Number 11 July 1934
£13.22
Creative Media Partners, LLC The Fly Leaf No. 2 Vol. 1 January 1896
£13.22
Why Not Her? Publishing Why Not Her A Manifesto For Culture Change
£20.68
Why Not Her? Publishing Why Not Her A Manifesto For Culture Change
£15.00
Donovan Street Press Adventures in the Radio Trade
£14.99
Xlibris Black Radio ... Winner Takes All
£21.80
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iUniverse Making Waves Radio on the Verge
£11.17
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC BBC Sports Report
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe living history of a huge part of all our lives - and there's no one in the world better to tell it than Pat Murphy -- Lee Child, bestselling authorOpens the doors to one of the great radio institutions and makes you realise how much effort and love goes into making it so special -- Dan WalkerPat’s reporting has always been engaging, expressive and arresting. Delighted his Sports Report book is just the same -- Mark PougatchThat opening tune always quickens the pulse. Out of the Blue, into the drama of the sporting day. Insight, interviews, inspirational -- Henry WinterIt was the opening theme tune that sucked you in – it’s synonymous with British sport and a staple diet of listening and watching sport on a Saturday afternoon. -- Joe Root, England CricketerFull of superb anecdotes, brilliantly told, marvellous characters. -- Jim RosenthalIf you have that sporting gene within you, it’s a book that soundtracks your life ... Every stage of that sporting cycle, that familiar tune, those familiar voices, coming at you through each beautifully researched page ... An absolute joy to read -- John InverdaleThis marvellous book will delight anyone who has ever shrieked or howled in response to something they heard on Sports Report, and that, surely, must be everybody. -- Mark Steel, comedianSports Report has run longer than Les Miserables and The Lion King put together. Patrick Murphy is the show’s perfect leading performer to tell its story from opening night in 1948 through the turbulent, exciting three-quarters of a century that followed, both on the fields of play and in the studio. -- Sir Tim RiceAn emotional, revealing opus to mark 75 years of the show. -- Henry Winter * The Times *A definitive history * Daily Mirror *A labour of love -- Adrian Chiles * BBC 5 Live *A lovingly curated, profoundly researched book about the history of the show. * The Telegraph *Pat Murphy does it proud... he skilfully weaves tales of the programme’s beginnings, the challenges it has faced over the years and the big stories that have been covered. * Late Tackle *It brings home the enormously long cast list of distinguished people who have reported or worked on the programme… Sports Report is a great institution and Pat’s book does justice to it. -- Lord King, former Governor of the Bank of England and Aston Villa supporterAn absolute joy of a book. A better Christmas present I cannot possible fathom -- Graeme SwannOf great interest to anyone wanting to gain an insight into how programmes are produced… a worthy addition to the books published recently commemorating the 100th anniversary of the BBC * Practical Wireless *Beautifully written. It brought back great memories of all my old friends at the best time of my life. -- Des LynamTable of ContentsPreface The Weekly Miracle The Beginnings Angus and Eamonn – The Odd Couple The Signature Tune Memorable Programmes 1948–1988 The Front of House In the Studio Moments to Savour At the Sharp End There were Some Laughs as Well Reading the Classifieds Gender on the Agenda – At Last! Memorable Programmes 1989-2021 Troughs Among the Peaks In Praise of Sports Report The Last Word Acknowledgements
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Ardith Publishing The Long Road to Easy Street
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly
Book SynopsisStuds Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to "ordinary" human beings of all classes and colours, as they talked about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. Alan Wieder's Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation is the first comprehensive book about this man. Drawing from over fifty interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and raconteur, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch. We see Studs, the eminent oral historian, the inveterate and selfless supporter of radical causes, especially civil rights. We see the actor, the writer, the radio host, the jazz lover, whose early work in television earned him a notorious place on the McCarthy blacklist. We also see Studs the family man and devoted husband to his adored wife, Ida. Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation allows us to realize the importance of reaching through our own daily realities - increasingly clogged with disembodied, impersonal interaction - to find value in actual face-time with real humans. Wieder's book also shows us why such contact might be crucial to those of us in movements rising up against global tyranny and injustice. The book is simply the best introduction available to this remarkable man. Reading it will lead people to Terkel's enormous body of work, with benefits they will cherish thr
£57.00
BearManor Media The Railroad Hour
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BearManor Media The Story of Professor Jerry Colonna
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BearManor Media I Love the Illusion
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BearManor Media Remembering Radio: An Oral History of Old-Time Radio
£25.37
BearManor Media On the Screen on the Air on My Mind
£30.56
BearManor Media Thinking of You - The Story of Kay Kyser
£27.96
BearManor Media William Conrad: A Life & Career
£20.62
Clanrye International Radio Science and Engineering
£101.70
Lak Publishing The 80th Birthday Trivia Challenge
£16.29
Dramamommaspeaks Publishing Were Live Radio Theater 101
£16.49
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio
Book SynopsisMusic in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio, highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners have expanded stations from campus borders to sur-rounding musical and cultural communities by acquiring FM licenses and establishing community-based mandates. The culture of a campus station extends beyond its studio and into the wider community where it is connected to the local music scene within its broadcast range. The book examines campus stations and local music in Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Sackville, NB, and highlights the ways that campus stations - through music-based programming, their operational practices, and the culture under which they operate - produce alternative methods and values for circulating local and independent Canadian artists at a time when ubiquitous commercial media outlets do exactly the opposite. Music in Range sheds light on a radio sector that is an integral component of Canada's musical and cultural fabric and positions campus radio as a worthy site of attention at a time when connectivity and sharing between musicians, music fans, and cultural intermediaries are increasingly shaping our experience of music, radio, and sound.Trade Review[Music in Range] situates campus radio in a wide range of local music scenes in Canada, and it outlines the place, regulation and valorization of this style of radio in Canada's current broadcast mediascape. Fauteux's attention to these intertwining interests provides a detailed and engaging study of Canadian campus radio. -- Michael Audette-Longo -- TopiaTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio by Brian FauteuxChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: ""Alternative"" RadioCommercial Radio Policy in CanadaDiscourses of ""Alternative""A Local AlternativeChapter 3: The Canadian Campus Radio Sector Takes ShapeSocial Responsibility and Cultural Hierarchies in the Development of Campus RadioCommunity Media and its Response to the Rise of Private BroadcastingCanadian Community Radio in the 1970s Regulating the Campus Radio SectorChapter 4: From Campus Borders to Communities: Campus Radio in Three Canadian LocalitiesPre-FM Radio Broadcasting at Three Canadian UniversitiesCanadian Campus Radio and Community Representation on the FM DialMandates and PhilosophiesLocality and Diversity in the Program GridChapter 5: A Community-Based Mandate: Regulating the Campus Radio Sector in 2010Non-Compliance at Ryerson University's CKLN-FMThe End of CKLN-FM: An Unprecedented DecisionCommercial ""Indie"" Radio Takes OverCampus and Community Radio Policy 2010Chapter 6: Canadian Campus Radio and Local Musical ActivityCHMA and Sackville: Music Festivals and an East Coast Cultural HubCKUW and Winnipeg: Isolation and Collaboration in Music Production and MythmakingCiTR and Vancouver: Cultural Institutions and Community in a Growing CityCampus Radio and Cultural Production: Stylus, Discorder, and Pop Alliance Compilation: Vol. 2 Chapter 7: Campus Radio and Alternative Music CultureCanadian Campus Radio and Policy-MakingAlternative Music Culture, Cultural Capital, and the Circulation of Local MusiciThe Future of the Canadian Campus Radio SectorReferencesAppendicesIndex
£28.95
Ashwood Book Publishers Watching Things Change
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Ashwood Book Publishers Watching Things Change
£21.99
