John Osborne's book Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio is Radio 4's Book of the Week this coming week.
In it John listens to a different station each day, all day, for a month, taking in a broad range of stations including Capital FM, BBC Asian Network, theJazz, Resonance FM and Radio 3.
As someone who has spent a lot of time carrying out monitoring/analysis on many stations, not just in the UK but also in Ireland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, I was obviously intrigued by the concept behind this book and splashed out on a copy.
It's early days, and I have been skipping around to get a flavour of the book, but so far I'm finding it an enjoyable read. To John Osborne's credit, much of the music played is not to his liking but he does stick with it.
Definitely a must for anybody who is interested in radio.
In it John listens to a different station each day, all day, for a month, taking in a broad range of stations including Capital FM, BBC Asian Network, theJazz, Resonance FM and Radio 3.
As someone who has spent a lot of time carrying out monitoring/analysis on many stations, not just in the UK but also in Ireland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, I was obviously intrigued by the concept behind this book and splashed out on a copy.
It's early days, and I have been skipping around to get a flavour of the book, but so far I'm finding it an enjoyable read. To John Osborne's credit, much of the music played is not to his liking but he does stick with it.
Definitely a must for anybody who is interested in radio.
