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Book Shelf - Radio History: Radio Personalities
 Richard Dimbleby, Broadcaster
By: Leonard Mall, Editor
Publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation
First published: 1966
Out of print
A tribute to Richard Dimbleby, containing 45 specially written contributions from close colleagues.
 Only the Wind will Listen, Reith of the BBC
By: Andrew Boyle
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co
First published: 1972
Out of print
A biography of Lord Reith.
 Radio: A True Love Story
By: Libby Purves
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
First published: 2002
Out of print
"A memoir, weaving Libby Purves own experiences with the story of radio's birth and development".
 Johnnie Walker - The Autobiography
By: Johnnie Walker
Publisher: Penguin Books
First published: 2007
In print
ISBN: 0141024283
From pirate radio to Buckingham Palace and an MBE - Johnnie Walker's story.
 I Am An Oil Tanker - Travels With My Radio
By: Fi Glover
Publisher: Ebury Press
First published: 2001 (As: I Am An Oil Tanker - Travels With My Radio)
Second edition: 2002 (As: Travels With My Radio)
Out of print
Fi's search for the "perfect" station - from Blue Danube Radio in Vienna and a Radio Five football broadcast to Irish UN troops doubling as volunteer DJs at Camp Shamrock in Southern Lebanon, line-dance-loving community shows in North Carolina and paranormal programmes from the Nevada desert.
 Alistair Cooke - The Biography
By: Nick Clarke
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
First published: 1999
Out of print
The biography of Alistair Cooke
 Stephen Potter at the BBC
By: Julian Potter
Publisher: Orford Books
First published: 2004
Out of print
Stephen Potter was famous in the 1950s and 1960s for his Gamesmanship and One-Upmanship books. In the 1940s, he was widely known as a key writer/producer of Feature programmes. He made 230 of these, showing astounding versatility. Literary and Natural History programmes jostle with his biography of Winston Churchill on VE day and his ‘How’ series. Stephen Potter kept detailed diaries of his day-to-day life. These provide a unique insight into the workings of the BBC immediately before, during and after the war. They also give an account of what it felt like on the Home Front, and of his experiences during the blitz, in both London and Manchester.
 Tony Blackburn Poptastic!: My Life in Radio
By: Tony Blackburn
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
First published: 2007
In print
ISBN-13: 978-1844036004
Tony feels the time is right to commemorate his own anniversary, and look back on the time he has spent in radio and the media. The days spent as a radio pirate, to becoming the number one DJ in the UK for the best part of a decade. The stars he befriended, the rivalries in radio he endured, the friendships made, and broken, all will be told in his candid style.
 Out of the Stewpot
By: Ed Stewart
Publisher: Blake Publishing
First published: 2005
In print
ISBN-13: 978-1844540860
The autobiography of Ed "Stewpot" Stewart
 The Tracks of My Years: The autobiography
By: Ken Bruce
Publisher: Pan
First published: 2010
In print
ISBN-13: 978-0330461368
The autobiography of Ken Bruce
 Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio
By: John Osborne
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
First published: 2009
In print
ISBN-13: 978-1847372307
From http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Radio-Head/ John Osborne has long been a fan of radio - from late night sessions of John Peel to Test Match Special at dawn, he has always enjoyed tuning in to the riches of our best broadcasts. When his dull temporary job became drearier than ever, John decided to remain attached to his headphones all day to listen to some of Britain's more unknown stations as well as revisiting the mainstream to fully experience the breadth of our radio output. The result is a funny, disarming ride through aspects of Britain that are uplifting, informative and sometimes plain bizarre.
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