Episode 79 is our second special of three authors - whose books you may wish to put on your Christmas wish list - especially if you're fans of Doctor Who, religion on radio, and/or ye olde Radio 1.
Last time we had three doctors; this time our first guest is definitely someone who's seen The Three Doctors...
PAUL HAYES' book is Pull to Open: 1962-1963: The Inside Story of How the BBC Created and Launched Doctor Who
https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pull-to-open-1962-1963
AMANDA HANCOX's book is Sunday: A History of Religious Affairs through 50 Years of Conversations and Controversies
https://amzn.to/3TlSz8Q
DAVID HAMILTON's books are The Golden Days of Radio One and Commercial Radio Daze
http://ashwaterpress.co.uk/DavidHamiltonbooks.html
BEN BAKER's book is The Dreams We Had As Children: Children's ITV and Me
https://linktr.ee/BenBakerBooks
PAUL KERENSA's book is Hark! The Biography of Christmas - in paperback and audiobook
https://amzn.to/486DrA6
You'll also hear BBC Radio Sussex/Surrey's (now Kent's as well) Mark Carter - who to my knowledge doesn't have a book (yet) but is, in David Hamilton's words "a great radio man".
Next time: our Christmas/Epiphany special will be the FULL re-enactment of Britain's First Religious Broadcast from July 1922. A rarely-known story - you'll sometimes see the BBC credited as first religious broadcaster, 24 Dec 1922. But no, there was one preacher who five months earlier... More next time! Religious or not, if you like radio, you'll love this tale.
Merry Nearly Christmas, or if you're reading this in the rest of year, a simple hello will suffice. Hello.
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