Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home by Rubens, Beaty

Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home

Intimate stories that offer entertaining perspectives on what it was like to engage with radio when it...
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Author: Beaty Rubens
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Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home by Rubens, Beaty

Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home

$68.74

Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home

$68.74
Author: Beaty Rubens
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Intimate stories that offer entertaining perspectives on what it was like to engage with radio when it was new.

Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensational. Between 1922 and 1939, British life was transformed by what was known as the Radio Craze. Listen In expresses what the radio's arrival signified at a personal level. This narrative history recounts the perspective of listeners who adopted the then radical form of communication technology, invested in their first-ever gadgets, and tuned in by their firesides to outside voices, music, SOS calls, the Pips, news, sports, royalty, and innovative radiogenic comedy. Listen In also traces how radio affected family life by exploring whether it altered dynamics between children and adults, changed relationships between women and men, as well as affected class and a wider sense of nationhood.

Packed with touching stories and anecdotes, Listen In comes at a timely moment when traditional linear radio is shifting, and the experience of how people consume audio is once again transforming.



Author: Beaty Rubens
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781851246311


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/21/2025 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2025
Choice 09/01/2025

About the Author
Beaty Rubens was a BBC Radio producer for thirty-five years and is now a freelance producer, presenter, and writer.

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