Radio category: 327 books
Going Off Alarming
The Autobiography: Vol 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The dazzlingly funny second volume of Danny Baker's memoirs: the television years.
Since my first book was published I have had countless friends and family members get in touch to say how come I hadn't included this story or that tale. Was I ashamed of being shot twice, once up the arse, in...
The Voice
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Ray 'Rabbits' Warren is the legendary voice of Australian sports commentary. People tell him he must have drunk a bottle of scotch and smoked a packet of cigarettes every day to have the voice that he has. That's not the case – at least, not anymore . . . The son of a railway worker, Ray placed his...
This Is NPR
The First Forty Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Always put the listener first has been NPR's mantra since its inception in 1970. Now over 40 years on the air, NPR's programming attracts over 27 million listeners every week. This ebook chronicles NPR's storied history, featuring dozens of behind-the-scenes photos, essays and original reporting by...
Married to the Amadeus
Life with a String Quartet
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The Amadeus Quartet, which was active from 1948 until 1987 when its viola player Peter Schidlof died, is probably the most famous and distinguished string quartet of the 20th century. It played to a wide variety of audiences on innumerable occasions in all the major countries of the world, and produced...
by Nikola Tesla
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2017
Nikola Tesla was a genius who revolutionized how the world looks at electricity.
A History of Du Cane Court
Land, Architecture, People and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Du Cane Court, in Balham, south-west London, is a popular art deco block of flats, which in its early days had a stylish restaurant and ballroom; and other social facilities, including rooms designated for playing billiards or cards, and even a reading and writing room. Originally, there were plans...
Big Mouths: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
These outspoken men never met an opinion that they didnt like—or an opinion that they didnt feel like sharing with everyone else. In this case, they shared their opinions in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the original frenemies Gene Siskel...
by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Test match special producer Peter Baxter presents tales of commentating capers from the Gabba to Eden Park in Jamaica. For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special, and during that time he reported on Test matches from around the world. This funny and...
Going on the Turn
Being the Extraordinary Stories of My Life and Dodging Deaths Door
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner.
Along the way this time we encounter,...
Jazz on My Mind
Liner Notes, Anecdotes and Conversations from the 1940s to the 2000s
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Dr. Herb Wong (1926–2014) was an internationally recognized jazz industry leader and the author of more than 400 liner notes from the 1940s through the early 2000s. He reviewed not only the tracks on those albums but the artists and their eras as well. This book features the best of Wong’s liner...
Go Where You Wanna Go
The Oral History of The Mamas and The Papas
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
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, critics, and fans.
Last Night of the Proms
An Official Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The ultimate celebration of the world’s favourite classical knees-up!
With a foreword from Katie Derham
Ever since Sir Henry Wood’s Proms were first broadcast in 1927, Last Night has become an annual appointment for classical music lovers and is enjoyed by millions around the world....
by Jan Haydn Rowles, Edda Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This unique book offers a complete course in how to do any accent and also gives you the tools to navigate your way through a specific accent. Using solid technical know-how, clear practical steps, real-life examples, and the occasional dose of humour, the Haydn/Sharpe System brings to the surface...
The Exception to the Rulers
Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2004
Her comments turned Charlie Rose red in the face. Bill Clinton called her 'hostile, combative, and even disrespectful.' Newt Gingrich said to her, 'You're the kind of reporter I warned my mother about.'
Meet Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist and host of the daily hour-long talk show that...