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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Connelly, Charlie (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Last train to Hilversum [Texte imprimé] : a journey in search of the magic of radio / Charlie Connelly
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Publishing, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : viii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain
still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us
every week. It's a background to all our lives: we wake up to our clock radios, we
have the radio on in the kitchen as we make the tea, it's on at our workplaces and
in our cars. From Listen With Mother to the illicit thrill of tuning into pirate stations
like Radio Caroline; from receiving a musical education from John Peel or having our
imagination unlocked by Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; from
school-free summers played out against a soundtrack of Radio One and Test Match Special
to more grown-up soundtracks of the Today programme on Radio 4 and the solemn, rhythmic
intonation of the shipping forecast - in many ways, our lives can be measured in kilohertz.
Yet radio is changing because the way we listen to the radio is changing. Last year
the number of digital listeners at home exceeded the number of analogue listeners
for the first time, meaning the pop and crackle and the age of stumbling upon something
by chance is coming to an end. There will soon be no dial to turn, no in-between spaces
on the waveband for washes of static, mysterious beeps and faint, distant voices.
The mystery will be gone: we'll always know exactly what it is we're listening to,
whether it's via scrolling LCD on our digital radios, the box at the bottom of our
TV screen or because we've gone in search of a particular streaming station. And so,
as the world of analogue listening fades, Charlie Connelly takes stock of the history
of radio and its place in our lives as one of the very few genuinely shared national
experiences. He explores its geniuses, crackpots and charlatans who got us to where
we are today, and remembers its voices, personalities and programmes that helped to
form who we are as individuals and as a nation. He visits the key radio locations
from history, and looks at its vital role over the past century on both national and
local levels. Part nostalgic eulogy, 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 an attempt to recreate and revisit
the world he entered on his childhood evenings on the dial as he set out on the radio
journey of a lifetime
Sujet(s) : Radiodiffusion -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Radiodiffusion -- Société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
384.540 941 = Radiodiffusion - Îles Britanniques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781408889992. - ISBN 1408889994. - ISBN 9781408890004. - ISBN 1408890003. -
ISBN 9781408889985 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47411479z
Notice n° :
FRBNF47411479
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