Radio Books

New and Published Books

1. Media Production

   A Practical Guide to Radio & TV

   By Amanda Willett

   Media Production is an introductory guide to radio, TV and film production techniques. Illuminating the step by step process from conception to delivery, from the initial brainstorms, through planning, research and editing, this book creates a guided structure to help students learn about...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. A History of Popular Culture

   More of Everything, Faster and Brighter, 2nd Edition

   By Raymond F. Betts, Lyz Bly

   This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War. A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Poetry of Radio

   The Colour of Sound

   By Seán Street

   This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. The work examines the development of poetic forms in sound broadcasting...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Interviewing for Radio

   2nd Edition

   By Jim Beaman

   Series: Media Skills

   'Jim Beaman’s Interviewing for Radio is a classic and seminal practice text, brilliantly written and masterful in its content. Nobody working in professional radio can do without it. It is a must for all radio courses and I could not recommend it more highly' - Tim Crook, Head of Radio, Goldsmiths...

   Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio

   Edited by Christopher H. Sterling, Cary O'Dell

   The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio presents the very best biographies of the internationally acclaimed three-volume Encyclopedia of Radio in a single volume. It includes more than 200 biographical entries on the most important and influential American radio personalities, writers,...

   Published July 26th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio

   Edited by Christopher H. Sterling, Cary O'Dell

   The average American listens to the radio three hours a day. In light of recent technological developments such as internet radio, some argue that the medium is facing a crisis, while others claim we are at the dawn of a new radio revolution. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio is an...

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
7. Reconstructing the Past

   History in the Mass Media 1890–2005

   Edited by Sian Nicholas, Tom O'Malley, Kevin Williams

   Bringing together a team of history and media researchers from across Britain and Europe, this volume provides readers with a themed discussion of the range and variety of the media’s engagement with history, and a close study of the relationship between media, history and national...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
8. Radio

   Edited by Andrew Crisell

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Over the last sixty years or so academic interest in the mass media has burgeoned. It is not, perhaps, surprising that this interest at first focused principally on the visual media of film and television, where it has remained intensive. Nevertheless, serious thinking about radio soon followed....

   Published November 12th 2008 by Routledge
9. Programme Making for Radio

   By Jim Beaman

   Series: Media Skills

   Programme Making for Radio offers trainee radio broadcasters and their instructors focused practical guidelines to the professional techniques applied to the making of radio shows, explaining how specific radio programmes are made and the conventions and techniques required to produce them. This...

   Published August 9th 2006 by Routledge
10. Underwriting 101

    Selling College Radio

    By Shyrl L. Plum

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    This media sales primer serves as a step-by-step manual to assist students in attaining sales proficiency and confidence. The author employs a practical, hands-on approach, enabling readers to develop valuable professional and interpersonal skills and to improve their options for obtaining sales...

    Published July 31st 2000 by Routledge