More Than a Music Box

Andrew Crisell is Professor of Broadcasting Studies at the University of Sunderland. He is the author of Understanding Radio (2nd edition 1994) and An Introductory History of British Broadcasting (2nd edition 2002).

“The editor freely admits the book is a snapshot, a ‘spread of impressions’, but the range of approaches and insights are its strength…these rich, varied and reflective, if not obviously connected, articles add to fascinating discussion of how we listen, what we got out of it and just what it is that makes radio, radio.” - The Radio Journal

• General IntroductionAndrew CrisellPART I: INSTITUTIONSChapter 1. Look with Thine Ears: BBC Radio 4 and Its Significance in a Multi-Media AgeAndrew CrisellChapter 2. BBC Radio 5 Live: Extending Choice Through ‘Radio Bloke’?Guy StarkeyChapter 3. U.S. Public Radio: What is It – and For Whom?Bob LochteChapter 4. Digital Reflections of Finnish Speech Journalism: YLE Radio PeiliMarko Ala-FossiPART II: IDENTITIESChapter 5. Indigenous Radio in CanadaValerie AliaChapter 6. Native American Radio: Wolakota Wiconi WasteBruce L. SmithChapter 7. National Public Service Radio in the South Pacific: A Community LoudspeakerHelen MolnarChapter 8. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away: Gay Radio, Past and PresentAlan BeckChapter 9. Continuities and Change in Women’s RadioKate LaceyPART III: GENRESChapter 10. ‘Reality Radio’: The DocumentaryDavid HendyChapter 11. Radio and Popular Culture in Germany: Radio Culture Between Comedy and ‘Event-isation’Andreas HeppChapter 12. Radio as a Medium for PoetryMike LaddChapter 13. A Medium for Mateship: Commercial Talk Radio in AustraliaTerry FlewChapter 14. Fireside Issues: Audience, Listener, SoundscapeFrances GrayPART IV: NEW TECHNOLOGYChapter 15. Dutch Web Radio as a Medium for Audience InteractionMartine van Selm, Nicholas W. Jankowski and Bibi KleijnChapter 16. Speech Radio in the Digital AgeRichard BerryNotes on ContributorsIndex