Now long out of print, John Dunning’s Tune in Yesterday was the definitive one-volume reference on old-time radio broadcasting. Now, in On the Air, Dunning has completely rethought this classic work, reorganizing the material and doubling its coverage, to provide a richer and more informative account of radio’s golden age. Here are some 1,500 radio …
Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life
Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation’s changing culture — a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British popular music. Without the support of John Peel, it’s unlikely that innumerable artists — from David …
NPR Funniest Driveway Moments: Radio Stories That Won’t Let You Go
Selected from the National Public Radio archives, these stories by some of NPR’s favorite commentators will keep listeners laughing. A “driveway moment” is when you’re so captivated by a story on NPR that you stay in your car to hear it to the end—even if you’re sitting in your own driveway. Some are serious, some are touching, …
Exploring the Magic of Wireless CommunicationThere are countless ways for radio signals to travel from transmitter to receiver, and understanding how radio waves interact with their environment is an important factor in successful radio communications. While amateurs can maximize station performance and reliability with the right equipment, knowledge and skill, we cannot control propagation. Through scientific exploration and …
In this Radio Theatre audio drama adaptation of George MacDonald’s classic story, a beautiful woman known as the North Wind blows through a small village in Victorian London, and everyday lives are mysteriously enveloped by a power and a glory. Along the way, she visits a poor stable boy named Diamond and takes him with her on her …
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIncludes all-new ma-ma-material!ALL NEW CHAPTER:Baba Booey’s Afghanistan Journal!and . . . the Shvoogie Buzzer story!One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and …
There may be an occasional flaw in the auto expert advice of brothers Tom and Ray Maggliozzi, but the complaint box remains empty, with no factory recall in sight. The next entry in the ever popular Car Talk Classics series features four all time favorite Car Talk episodes, hand-picked by host Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, and …
In 1921, a chance encounter with a radio receiver sent Sacramento Bee newspaperman Carlos McClatchy on a determined path to break into broadcasting. Ushered by the enterprising McClatchy family, the Bee became the first Pacific Coast newspaper to enter the radio business. For decades, broadcasting in Sacramento was shaped by the brilliant but fatally flawed Carlos McClatchy; his …
What better way to spend an hour than with some audience-tested and certified Not Bad jokes? Join guest Paula Poundstone, Garrison Keillor, and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion as they share more puns, one-liners, and light bulb jokes than you can shake a rubber chicken at. You get bar jokes, political jokes, Ole and Lena …
Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with dignity. In Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and …