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STREET (Seán) A CONCISE HISTORY OF BRITISH RADIO 1922-2002 Preface by Piers Plowright.
Kelly Publications, Tiverton, Devon 2005
ISBN 1903053145. Reprinted with minor corrections. 156pp. Paperback. 85 illustrations. NEW
Seán Street, broadcaster, poet and historian, is Professor of Radio in the Bournemouth Media School at Bournemouth University, the first person to hold such a post in this country. Issued as a companion volume to Tony Currie's A CONCISE HISTORY OF BRITISH TELEVISION this informative and entertaining book is a completely original publication. To quote from Piers Plowright's Preface it is: "a coherent and dramatic sweep from the first scientifically-based attempts to send sound messages over distance to the rich and sometimes rude complexity of 21st century digital broadcasting...The style is crisp, clear and often witty." Perhaps uniquely in a study of radio history this excellent book recognises the importance of the various commercial radio stations, pre-war as well as post-war, balanced against those of the BBC
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10.95 GBP
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STREET (Seán) CROSSING THE ETHER British Public Service Radio and Commercial Competition 1922-1945.
Eastleigh: John Libbey Publishers 2006
viii + 296pp. Paperback. 2 pages of illustrations. NEW. Includes Audio CD
“Legal, land-based independent radio in Britain first began in October, 1973. Prior to this, Radio Luxembourg and the offshore ‘pirate’ stations of the 1960s had challenged the BBC’s monopoly of the airwaves. It is, however, a lesser-known fact that the debate between public service and commercial interests in UK radio goes back much further - in fact to the very beginnings of the medium. Between 1920 and the outbreak of World War II, radio listening in Britain was a battlefield fought over on one hand by a somewhat paternalistic BBC, and on the other by Europe-based commercial stations, broadcasting populist sponsored English-language programmes. This book explores fully for the first time the importance of the tension between the two in terms of the cultural and technical evolution of British sound broadcasting. In so doing, it questions the traditional historical view of the BBC as an unchallenged monopoly during the period, providing evidence that a number of crucial areas of broadcasting development in pre-war Britain resulted directly from the pressure of competition.”
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22.00 GBP
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STREET (Seán) RADIO AND OTHER POEMS
Ware, Herts: Rockingham Press 1999
80pp. Paperback. NEW
The first section in this, the sixth volume of poetry by Seán Street, is called 'Radio - ten poems about sound'. These poems were commissioned by Radio 4 for National Poetry Day 1998. In addition, many other poems in this collection have grown from the author's experiences of 30 years in radio. Of this book Piers Plowright wrote: "like the radio which he celebrates, Seán Street's poetry begins in near silence, then shades into dream and memory through images and sharply observed detail. He has a great ear and a great sense of the world as parable and echo chamber"
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6.95 GBP
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