Radio Head: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio

This one is a quest. It’s to find the heart and soul of Britain’s radio stations by listening, one day at a time, to as many of them as will fill a book. Osborne does this at work, on a dreary industrial estate in Norwich, inputting data (or pretending to) while listening, via his computer. Sometimes he goes out and meets the people who make the shows, such as Mark Radcliffe and Stuart show more Maconie. He sits in as they do their show in Manchester. He’s excited: “Despite having never met either before, I do not feel that I am in a room with two strangers. Both have mastered the art of making radio into a personal medium to such an extent that I feel I could walk into either of their homes without even knocking at the front door.” show less