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Last Train to Hilversum

Product Number: D6241
Released: 01 Jun, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781528864213
Narrator(s): David Thorpe
Publisher: W F Howes
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Part nostalgic reverie, part social history, part travelogue, Last Train To Hilversum is Connelly's love letter to radio, exploring our relationship with the medium from its earliest days to the present in a journey from the wireless to wireless. Despite the all-pervading influence of television an astonishing ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us every week. In Last Train To Hilversum Charlie Connelly explores the place of radio in our world, taking stock of the history of the medium and celebrating its role as one of the very few genuinely shared national experiences. He explores some of the geniuses, crackpots and charlatans who helped to give us the radio we know today, talks to some of our great contemporary broadcasters from Corrie Corfield to Cerys Matthews, visits Britain's smallest commercial station and amplifies the voices, personalities and programmes that have helped to form who we are as individuals and as a nation. “Charlie's book is utterly charming - witty, warm, tender, deeply evocative and so intelligently written.” DAISY BUCHANAN

Author(s): Charlie Connelly
Original Publish Date: 01 Jun, 2019

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Author(s): Charlie Connelly
Narrator(s): David Thorpe
Product Number MPCD4046
Released: 01 Jun, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528864220
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Author(s): Charlie Connelly
Narrator(s): David Thorpe
Product Number CX5139
Released: 01 Jun, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528864206

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