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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Dedication
Title
Contents
1 We Are All Radio People
2 Love Hertz: a Radio Life
3 Insinuating Eavesdropper: the Pioneers
4 Follow Spot to Light Icing: an Afternoon with Corrie Corfield, Part One
5 ‘Romantic, Authoritative, Mesmeric’: the World of the Shipping Forecast
6 The Six Per Cent Silence: an Afternoon with Corrie Corfield, Part Two
7 ‘A Science of Inestimable Value to Humanity’: Guglielmo Marconi in Dorset
8 ‘The World is Calling for More’: the Chelmsford Broadcast
9 The Bridle Path to Glory: the Birth of British Broadcasting
10 A Slumbering Old Warrior: Looking for Lord Reith
11 Women Against the Tide: the Ballad of Sheila Borrett
12 Charlton Athletic Nil: Charlotte Green Reads the Football Results
13 ‘Don’t Swear’: the First Commentator
14 And the Sun Shines Now: the Greatest Commentator
15 ‘Make it a Conversation’: Spending the Night with Dotun Adebayo
16 Last Heard of: the Lost World of the Radio SOS
17 Norman Conquest: Leonard Plugge and the Birth of Independent Radio
18 Not Fit for Human Habitation: Two Lochs Radio, Britain’s Smallest Commercial Station
19 The Birth of Satire: Ronald Knox and the Red Panic of 1926
20 ‘The Goons are the Lonnie Donegan of British Comedy’: Arthur Mathews in the Comic Ether
21 The Filthiest Joke in the World: Clapham and Dwyer’s Moral Panic
22 ‘There’s nothing between Us and Heaven’: the Fleet’s Lit Up and So is Tommy Woodrooffe
23 ‘Who Cares if the Government’s Unhappy?’: Jessie Brandon, Pirate Queen
24 ‘Pack it in, Beatrice’: Revisiting the Cello and the Nightingale
25 ‘The World is a Small Place When You Have a Radio’: Sunday Morning with Cerys Matthews
26 ‘It was Basically Boys Playing with Stuff, but They Also Had a Vision’: Radio Lessons in Hilversum
27 Listening Out at Rampisham Down
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
Plates
Copyright
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