Radio History

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    • The Men Who Made Radio
    • By: Tom Lewis
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries - Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff - whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age....

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    • The Battle for the Airwaves and the Birth of the Communications Age
    • By: Scott Woolley
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • The astonishing story of America's airwaves and the two friends - one a media mogul, the other a famous inventor - who made them available to us....

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    • How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States
    • By: Brian Rosenwald
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • The cocreator of the Washington Post's Made by History blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump....

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    • The Most Important Technologies, People and Events that Started Radio Broadcasting and the Communication Age
    • By: Edward N. Simpson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Read this book for free with Kindle Unlimited Long before the Internet would dominate the world of entertainment, there was another technology ...

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    • The Story of Popular Standards
    • By: John Cousins
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • We have entered an age where we now have instant, unlimited, free access to the history of recorded music. We have the ability to listen across ...

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    • How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement
    • By: Paul Matzko
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Radio Right tells the story of the 1960s far right, who were frustrated by what they perceived to be liberal bias in the national media, particularly the media's sycophantic relationship with the John F. Kennedy administration....

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    • Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Sound Culture
    • By: Shawn VanCour
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Focusing on broadcasting's initial expansion during the 1920s, Making Radio explores the forms of creative labor pursued for the medium in the period prior to the better-known network era....

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    • A BBC Radio 4 Alternative History
    • By: Christopher Andrew
    • Narrated by: Christopher Andrew
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In these 34 intriguing episodes, leading historian Christopher Andrew rewrites history, considering what might have transpired if pivotal events had turned out differently....

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    • Robert Ford's Last Stand in the Fight to Save Tibet
    • By: James McGrath Morris
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Hired by the Tibetan government, Royal Air Force veteran Robert W. Ford put together a radio communications network for a nation that had up to this time relied on messages....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
    • By: Richard Neer
    • Narrated by: Peter Larkin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • As a young man, Richard Neer dreamed of landing a job at WNEW in New York - one of the revolutionary FM stations across the country that were changing the face of radio....

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    • A History of College Radio
    • By: Katherine Rye Jewell
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than music—they were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation's culture wars.

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    • By: Stephen Marche
    • Narrated by: Stephen Marche
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • Modern parenting is in a complicated place. By some estimates, fathers today spend seven times more time parenting than their dads did. And while there are a ton of parenting books, writer Stephen Marche says that most are aimed at women....

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    • By: Geoff Edgers
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Elvis could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South, the gospel music of local churches, and the country-western classics. Listen to learn more about Elvis....

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    • Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
    • By: William Shirer
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Legendary CBS news journalist’s iconic radio broadcasts from Europe during WWII....

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    • The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
    • By: Nolan Gasser
    • Narrated by: Nolan Gasser
    • Length: 38 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind, body, and upbringing influence the music you love....

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    • A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
    • By: National Public Radio Inc
    • Narrated by: Alison Fensterstock, Ann Powers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Acclaimed critic and TtT co-founder Ann Powers and contributor Alison Fensterstock draw from every Turning the Tables season and the full 50-years of NPR archives to bring a vibrant, entertaining history of women in folk, rock, rap, hip hop, salsa, bubblegum pop, and much more.

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