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More than three dozen timeless interviews from the award-winning National Public Radio host encourage revelations from figures as diverse as John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan O'Brien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicholas Cage.

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This is a practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio to a professional standard. Packed with practical advice, and on-the-job tips, it distills tried and tested knowledge from a specialist radio trainer.

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A practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio to a professional standard. It covers network and commercial, music and talk radio skills. It features advice from industry professionals, and covers industry-wide best practice with enough 'need-to-know' technical information to get you up and running.

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This book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experimental possibilities of radiophony and sound art.

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What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ

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An Introduction and Radio Chronology provide the historical framework for the topics.

This dictionary will be of interest to students and scholars interested in radio, television, communications, communications history, and electronic media.

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After World War II, when thousands of African Americans left farms, plantations, and a southern way of life to migrate north, African American disc jockeys helped them make the transition to the urban life by playing familiar music and giving them hints on how to function in northern cities.

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After World War II, when thousands of African Americans left farms, plantations, and a southern way of life to migrate north, African American disc jockeys helped them make the transition to the urban life by playing familiar music and giving them hints on how to function in northern cities.

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An account of early radio's contributions to US social and cultural life, this account brings together varied perspectives of listeners who recall the programmes that delighted and entranced them.

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Examining the role of transnational radio broadcasting in the 20th century, this study compares and contrasts the goals and objectives of six broadcast networks: the BBC, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, Radio Marti, Radio Free Asia, and Vatican Radio.

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Written by an academic and a practitioner, On Air provides a critical overview of radio for media students, as well as suggestions for practical activities, a time-line of major events in the history of radio, and a glossary of key terms.

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The One Night Stand Series broadcasts from 1943 to 1965 made the US Armed Forces Radio Service the biggest music producer ever. This work traces the history of these broadcasts, their production and distribution, and provides discographies of the programmes in the series.

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This book presents a phenomenological model for understanding radio drama and uses it to analyse the practice of radio dramaturgy in the UK. It argues that the central role of the body in the act of listening has been neglected and suggests that a more resonant, embodied dramaturgy is needed to meet the demands of current listening cultures.

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An autobiography of Studs Terkel, an American oral historian, which mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King Jr to Federico Fellini, the author captured their voices for posterity.

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A collection of some of Margaret Throsby's most interesting ABC-FM interviews.

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"A state-of-the-art collection of original, research-based essays exploring new directions in radio and audio research"--