14 November 2012 marks the ninetieth anniversary of the BBCs first ever broadcast & the beginning of the British love affair with radio. This fascinating book takes as its starting point those early tentative programmes broadcast from Marconi House on the Strand & follows the story of those magical radio voices through the years of economic depression war & austerity to the swinging Sixties & up to the digital era. Above all it celebrates the great the forgotten & the notorious voices of radio from the last nine decades & the programmes they made famous: Marion Cran in the 1920s who pioneered the first gardening programme; Lord Haw Haw whose sinister catchphrase Germany calling punctuated broadcasts throughout the Second World War; the Goons & Kenneth Horne comedy greats of the 1950s; John Peel Alan Freeman Kenny Everett & other heroes of Radio Caroline & the pirate stations; all the way up to Eddie Mair Fi Glover & Danny Baker the much-loved voices of today. The result is a wonderful blend of insight history & nostalgia that will appeal to radios many aficionados.