The spaceship Ares has been heading back to Earth for 30 years, with the crew in suspended animation - except Captain Jet Morgan, whose sleeper pod failed. Jet picks up an SOS from Mars, and wakes the others to go on a rescue mission. But when our heroes meet up with the stranded crew it becomes apparent that all is not what it first appeared.
A practical guide for learning how to make good radio in the era of Radio 2.0. It examines the key roles in radio: announcing, presenting, research, copywriting, producing, marketing and promotions. This edition reflects the impact of digital radio, including multi-platform delivery, listener databases, social media and online marketing.
Presents the biographies of the three-volume "Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio" in a single volume. This title includes more than 100 biographical entries on American, British, Australian, European, and Canadian radio personalities, writers, producers, directors, newscasters, and network executives.
A compilation of games including the legendary "Mornington Crescent" from the much-loved "antidote to panel games" chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton. Panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined by special guests Stephen Fry, Jeremy Hardy, Paul Merton and Sandi Toksvig.
Mary Grannan became a radio star when she hit the national airwaves in 1939. A biography of Mary Grannan, this book presents an examination of her life journey through personal letters, archives, photographs, and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and former students. This is the private Mary Grannan, the public has never known.
Johnners began a broadcasting career that introduced him to a gaggle of British eccentrics from places visited in Down Your Way, and eventually took him to the cramped, cosy and chaotic cricket commentators' box where gaffes, terrible jokes and gales of laughter were never far away. This book is compendium of three of Johnners' best loved books.
Rafe Mair has dominated the British Columbia airwaves for years, pulling in more listeners than any other radio personality in the province. This memoir uncovers behind-the-scenes exploits during his 15 years practising law in Vancouver and Kamloops, and his nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster.
International in scope, this handbook provides an overview of the historical developments and current status of the terrestrial radio industry in some of the largest and most populated countries throughout the world, with insightful and global perspectives by prominent international media scholars and examinations ofover 20 countries.
In early 1993, at the age of eighty, Brian Johnston embarked on a nationwide theatre tour with his one-man show called An Evening with Johnners. This book was first published in 1996 and contains all the material from the original recording. This centenary edition has been updated by by Barry Johnston and illustrated by John Ireland.
Lee Mack, Bafta award-winner and host of BBC One's "They Think It's All Over", stars in his first BBC Radio 2 series. Ably assisted by long-suffering sidekick Angela McHale and house band leader Steve Brown ("Knowing Me, Knowing You's" Glenn Ponder), Lee Mack brings a show for the 21st century.
A guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry, explaining the functions performed successfully within every well-run station. It describes various departments within a radio station. It features such topics as satellite radio, Web radio, AM stereo, cable and pod casting.
Since it was first billed in the Radio Times on Monday 1st January 1951 as a programme about 'the daily events in the lives of country folk', The Archers has attracted millions of fans. This title traces the lives of some well-loved characters who are still central to the series.
Examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. This title considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. It offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.
Examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. This title considers how the radio came to matter, especially politically, to phenomenology, existentialism, Hegelian Marxism, anticolonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. It offers a fresh perspective on the role this technology plays today.
Offers trainee radio broadcasters and their instructors, guidelines to techniques applied to the making of radio shows, explaining how radio programmes are made and the conventions and techniques required to produce them. This book describes how these methods are applied through the use of a behind-the-scenes glimpse at industry practices.
In this first volume of Sir Harry Secombe's autobiography, he recalls his childhood in Swansea, his first job as a pay clerk, and his army days, where he met Spike Milligan. The book also includes an account of the Windmill Theatre and of touring in Variety, and memories of the first Goon Shows.
Presents the story of the adventure that created Glasgow-based Radio Clyde, the first UK commercial station to launch outside of London on Hogmanay 1973. This book contains anecdotes about the personalities and programmes of the station's formative years. It also traces the origins of radio in Scotland.
Presents the skills, techniques, and procedures necessary to enter in the field of broadcast performance. This book addresses the importance of audience and how to communicate effectively to various groups. It covers television and radio studio environments, announcer specializations and responsibilities, and developing a broadcast delivery style.
A selection of jokes, verses, personal stories and sketches. It includes poems such as:"Will I Have to Be Sexy at Sixty?", The Wonderbra, Littering, Poor Dad, The Voice at the Foot of the Stairs, Do You Think Bruce Springsteen Would Fancy Me?, I'm Going to Be Surgically Enhanced, and "Clamp the Mighty Limpet."
Relives the defining moments in Archers history, from the devastating 1955 stables fire and the 1957 Tom Forrest manslaughter charge to the shocking imprisonment of Susan Carter in the early 1990s, the revelation of Brian Aldridge's affair with Siobhan Hathaway, and the Grundys' eviction from Grange Farm and exile to Meadow Rise.
To the five million listeners who tune in every week to the world's longest running drama series, Who's Who in the Archers has become a perennial favourite. This guide offers the information you need to know about the archetypal village that is Ambridge.
Presents the story of one boy's childhood spent criss-crossing America with his alcoholic father, rarely attending class, surviving on shoplifted sardines and sugared bread. This memoir explores the fine line between wanderlust and compulsion, and demonstrates that the longing for the 'next better place' is often more powerful than the arrival.
Who is Radio 4's 'fourteen-stone budgie'? How did Phyllis Willis and Mavis Davis make announcer Charlotte Green lose her cool? What does 'Ruth' really think about The Archers? And who was the Spam Fritter Man, and what became of him? This guide answers these and many other questions about the world of Radio 4.
With the resurgence (though some say it has never left) of radio, due in part to new media practices and technological innovations, not only are there more theory-related radio courses, but also those teaching the production and practice aspects. This book combines both theory and practice to lead to an understanding of radio drama form.
Examines the many players, organisations and national agencies which have been active in the arena of international radio. This volume unravels the many transformations and evolutions of international radio and focuses on Radio Canada International, RCI, which has been one of the prime players in the field.
A timely and practical handbook for volunteer community radio presenters covering all aspects of radio production and presentation from scriptwriting, news gathering, interviewing techniques, timing, presenting and legal considerations, to advances in broadcast technology.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, radio created a virtual place where Jewish immigrants could listen to voices like theirs and affirm the sound of their community as it evolved, particularly in light of World War II and the years that followed. This title examines the culture of Yiddish radio in the United States during radio's golden age.
Whether you need a quick run-down on a new character or a reminder about an on-going relationship, this guide tells you what you need to know about: Harry, the new milkman, who has wasted no time in getting himself noticed; the team running the new community shop; the unofficial social club founded by Eddie Grundy; and who lives at Grange Spinney.
Radio, the most widely used medium in the world, is a dominant mediator of musical meaning. Through a combination of critical analysis, interdisciplinary theory and ethnographic writing about community radio, this book provides a novel theorization of democratic aesthetics, with important implications for the study of old and new media alike.