We're back! Season 7 begins with a Books Special - plus a visit to a special exhibition at Oxford's magnificent Bodleian Library - 'Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home'.
It's curated by Beaty Rubens, who has also written a book of the same name. I joined her at the exhibition for a tour and an interview, recorded live at the Bodleian. Thanks to them for their hospitality - and for caring for countless artefacts, including the Marconi Archive.
And we have authors galore, all with different takes on broadcasting history - I think I count three professors, a doctor, and several yet-to-be-titled too. 
We bring you:
<ul>
<li>Beaty Rubens - Listen In: How Radio Change the Home: <a href='https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/listen-in'>https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/listen-in</a></li>
<li>...and the Bodleian exhibition of the same name: <a href='https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/listenin'>https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/listenin</a></li>
<li>David Hendy - The BBC: A People's History: <a href='https://amzn.to/3X3SDuU'>https://amzn.to/3X3SDuU</a></li>
<li>Simon J Potter - This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain 1922-2022: <a href='https://amzn.to/3CWfqSu'>https://amzn.to/3CWfqSu</a></li>
<li>Tim Wander - 2MT Writtle: <a href='https://marconibooks.co.uk'>https://marconibooks.co.uk</a></li>
<li> Edward Stourton - Auntie’s War: <a href='https://amzn.to/4b463g8'>https://amzn.to/4b463g8</a></li>
<li>Amy Holdsworth - On Living With Television: <a href='https://amzn.to/41keqRi'>https://amzn.to/41keqRi</a></li>
<li>Alan Stafford - Bigamy Killed the Radio Star: <a href='https://www.fantompublishing.co.uk/product/bigamy-killed-the-radio-star/'>https://www.fantompublishing.co.uk/product/bigamy-killed-the-radio-star/</a></li>
<li>Martin Cooper - Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture: <a href='https://amzn.to/41iLTM6'>https://amzn.to/41iLTM6</a></li>
<li>...and his blog: <a href='https://prefadelisten.com/'>https://prefadelisten.com/</a></li>
<li>Paul Kerensa - Hark! The Biography of Christmas: <a href='https://amzn.to/4iuULoB'>https://amzn.to/4iuULoB</a> / audiobook read by the author: <a href='https://amzn.to/4gdlYud'>https://amzn.to/4gdlYud</a></li>
</ul>
 
- Original music is by Will Farmer.
- Support us on <a href='http://www.patreon.com/paulkerensa'>Patreon</a> (£5/mth), for bonus videos and things - and thanks if you do!
- Paul's on tour: An Evening of (Very) Old Radio visits these places: <a href='http://www.paulkerensa.com/oldradio'>www.paulkerensa.com/tour</a> - come and hear about the first firsts of broadcasting, live.
- This podcast is nothing to do with the BBC.
- Comments? Email the show - paul at paulkerensa dot com. (Rerite that as an email address)
 
Next time: August 1923 on the BBC - new radio HQs in Birmingham and Manchester, developments in Scotland and Dublin, and the first radio gardener, Marion Cran.
 
More info on this broadcasting history project at <a href='http://www.paulkerensa.com/oldradio'>paulkerensa.com/oldradio</a>

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