Arts / Mass Media / Radio

Marian Finucane: The Saturday Interviews

by Marian Finucane

Interviews and commentary from major Irish broadcaster.

Sports Talk: A Journey Inside the World of Sports Talk Radio

by Alan Eisenstock

A Journey inside the World of Sports Talk Radio

Their voices explode over the airwaves -- with names like Mike and the Mad Dog, the Stinkin' Genius, Hacksaw, and JT the Brick. They broadcast in drive time and...

Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One

by Zev Chafets

"Chafets has seen more of the pundit's personal world than any other journalist." -The Washington Post

People tend to remember the moment they first heard The Rush Limbaugh Show on the radio. For Zev Chafets,...

The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television

by Albert Moran & Chris Keating

The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television provides essential facts and information concerning the Australian radio and television industry. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory...

The A to Z of British Radio

by Seán Street

The A to Z of British Radio relates the history of this medium through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on the BBC and other companies,...

The A to Z of American Radio Soap Operas

by Jim Cox

The dictionary section, made up of more than 500 cross-referenced entries, provides brief vignettes of the more popular and also less well-known 'soaps,' among them Back Stage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Pepper Young's...

Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures

by Jacob Smith

From the 1940s to the 1970s, the phonograph industry experienced phenomenal growth, both in sales and in cultural influence. Along with hugely popular music recordings, spoken word LPs served a multitude of...

Historical Dictionary of American Radio Soap Operas

by Jim Cox

The dictionary section, made up of more than 500 cross-referenced entries, provides brief vignettes of the more popular and also less well-known 'soaps,' among them Back Stage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Pepper Young's...

The A to Z of Old Time Radio

by Robert C. Reinehr & Jon D. Swartz

The A to Z of Old Time Radio provides essential facts and information on the Golden Age of Radio. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of...

The Spice Girls Quiz Book

by Chris Cowlin

The Spice Girls was one of the most influential pop groups of the 1990s and the most successful British band since the Beatles, but how much do you know about the band members? Are you an expert on the multi-award...

The Beyonce Quiz

by Wayne Wheelwright

The Beyonce quiz book will test even the biggest fan's knowledge of this world famous superstar. Questions range from her childhood through the Destiny's Child days all the way up to the birth of her first child....

Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City

by Craig Havighurst

Started by the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1925, WSM became one of the most influential and exceptional radio stations in the history of broadcasting and country music. WSM gave Nashville...

Sports-Talk Radio in America: Its Context and Culture

by Frank Hoffmann, Jack M. Dempsey & Martin J Manning

An inside look at the hosts, hot spots, and history of sports-talk radio

Sports-Talk Radio in America looks at major-, medium-, and small-market stations across the United States that feature an all-sports format,...

Go Where You Wanna Go: The Oral History of The Mamas and The Papas

by Matthew Greenwald

Lavishly illustrated and cinematic in scope, Go Where You Wanna Go is told from the points of view of not only the group members, but also from those of their friends, musical collegues, business associates,...

From Our Own Correspondent: A Celebration of Fifty Years of the BBC Radio Programme

by Tony Grant

The flagship Radio 4 programme From Our Own Correspondent gives Britain's most celebrated reporters the chance to describe much more than they can in a normal report: context, history and characters encountered...

Hello Again: Nine Decades of Radio Voices

by Simon Elmes

14 November 2012 marks the ninetieth anniversary of the BBC's first ever broadcast and the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early, tentative...

My Double Life: Sexty Yeers of Farquharson Around with Don Harn

by Don Harron

After 15 books about somebody else (mostly alter ego Charlie Farquharson), Don Harron now presents the colourful story of his 77-year career in the entertainment business.

Selling the Sixties: The Pirates and Pop Music Radio

by Robert Chapman

Was it a non-stop psychedelic party or was there more to pirate radio in the sixties than hedonism and hip radicalism? From Kenny Everett's sacking to John Peel's legendary `Perfumed Garden' show, to the influence...

Desert Island Discs: 70 years of castaways

by Sean Magee & Kirsty Young

'For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat - to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts,...

Biographical Dictionary of Radio

by Christopher H. Sterling

The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio presents the very best biographies of the internationally acclaimed three-volume Encyclopedia of Radio in a single volume. It includes more than 200 biographical...