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With our German partner club we have commissioned a Talking Book version of 'Life on Air '
This is now available for any Blind or Parially sighted person via the RNIB
We also help to make Talking Clocks available to those who need them - see below

click on the book for a peak inside

Reviews
...meticulously documented... a magnificent chronicle. (Laurie Taylor, THES )

An unalloyed treat... If Radio 4 is a great four-funnelled liner, radiating serene intelligence and self-control, this is the ship's secret logbook. Life on Air is a gem. (Libby Purves, The Times )

Filled with riveting detail and anecdote, constantly illuminating ... endlessly engrossing. (Stefan Collini, Guardian Review )

Hendy has explored those relating to Radio 4 in its first two decades very thoroughly indeed. (Stefan Collini, Guardian Review )

Hendy's book will certainly sort the sheep from the goats among listeners (Kate Chisholm, Daily Telegraph )

Hendy charts in masterly detail the improbable evolution of a network. (John Tusa, Times Literary Supplement )

Hendy examines a many-faceted national treasure with the cool eye of a jeweller and the ardour of a proper fan. (Libby Purves, The Tablet )

Revelatory. (Advance praise from Ned Sherrin, broadcaster )

Eminently readable, utterly reliable, on occasions painfully frank, it is a joy to read. (Advance praise from Gillian Reynolds, Radio Critic of the Daily Telegraph )

A tremendous read: impeccable research used with wit and insight about a national treasure. (Advance praise from Jean Seaton, Official Historian of the BBC )

This is the reverse of sexed up. (Valerie Grove, Literary Review )

academically rigorous, but eminently readable book that rightly sub-titles itself A History of Radio 4 (Jenni Murray, Daily Mail )

engrossing and highly entertaining reading...this is a rich book about a rich subject (Camden New Journal )

fine, meticulous history (Financial Times )

There is a nugget of surprising and entertaining fact on every page. (Lisa Mullen, Time Out )