To the five million listeners who tune in every week to the world's longest running drama series, Who's Who in the Archers has become a perennial favourite. This guide offers the information you need to know about the archetypal village that is Ambridge.

Tells the story, from 'Footlights' to 'Broadway' to the ferret-filled madness of Radio Prune - comedy's answer to the rock & roll revolution of the sixties.

Containing information gathered from the vast BBC Birmingham Archers archives and illustrated throughout, this trivia book is suitable for all things Ambridge.

Presents the story of the adventure that created Glasgow-based Radio Clyde, the first UK commercial station to launch outside of London on Hogmanay 1973. This book contains anecdotes about the personalities and programmes of the station's formative years. It also traces the origins of radio in Scotland.

Inside the wacky world of Britain's wildest radio station. The eagerly anticipated expose that unravels the tale of Britain's groundbreaking radio station, revealing the inside story behind the first ten years of the nation's biggest and most successful commercial radio station.

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Investigates the fundamental tenets of community radio as a movement through an examination of the experiences of six contemporary Irish community radio stations.

Rumpole is a wine-imbibing friend of the South London criminal classes, and the scourge of all QCs. Acting as narrator, he tells a series of stories involving legal chicanery, criminal derring-do and startling coincidence, spiced with a modicum of domestic strife at home.

Volume 17 of the Goon Show series features the following episodes: The Reason Why , The Treasure in the Tower , The Plasticene Men and The Silent Bugler , recorded in 1957-8.

Offers listing of the key characters and places from Britain's best loved radio drama. This guide helps you master the intricate and tangled web of relations in Ambridge, uncover the secrets behind the feuds and scandals, and gain insight into the happenings on the show.

Published to mark the 25th anniversary of the BBC Radio 2 show "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", this book contains a selection of the funniest results of the limerick round.

Who is Radio 4's 'fourteen-stone budgie'? How did Phyllis Willis and Mavis Davis make announcer Charlotte Green lose her cool? What does 'Ruth' really think about The Archers? And who was the Spam Fritter Man, and what became of him? This guide answers these and many other questions about the world of Radio 4.

Johnners began a broadcasting career that introduced him to a gaggle of British eccentrics from places visited in Down Your Way, and eventually took him to the cramped, cosy and chaotic cricket commentators' box where gaffes, terrible jokes and gales of laughter were never far away. This book is compendium of three of Johnners' best loved books.

Covers Brian's early days, from his childhood in Hertfordshire and his schooldays at Eton and Oxford to his job in the family coffee business in the City and his service with the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War. This book contains a selection of the most memorable characters and locations from his years on the Radio Four programme.

November 2004 saw the 50th anniversary of Tony Hancock's best-loved work, Hancock's Half-Hour , which began as a radio series. The show soon became a yardstick against which all subsequent British sitcoms have since been measured. This book presents the history of the show, including behind-the-scenes stories, and the story of its demise.

The hilarious and revealing account of the author's month as a Radio Head: listening to a different radio station each day, all day, for thirty days.

This is an account of a year in the life of BBC Radio 1 during a period when attempts were being made to reverse a trend which had seen the loss of millions of listeners and the departure of leading disc jockeys. The author was allowed behind-the-scenes access, including management meetings.

The classic tale of Dracula, lord of vampires, is related through the personal journals of Dr Arthur Seward, Jonathan Harker, Dr Van Elsing and Mina Harker. This work was first broadcast in 1938.

Comprising an hour long Archive Hour special on the comedy news quiz, presented by Matthew Parris and featuring interviews with chairmen and panellists past and present. Also included in this release is a special anniversary edition of The News Quiz, in which current panellists answer questions on news subjects from the past 25 years. * 2 cassettes/2 CDs

The Inside Story. A no-holds-barred account of the making of every Big Finish Doctor Who story from 1999's The Sirens of Time to 2003's anniversary special Zagreus, taking in special releases, the Doctor Who Unbound series, Dalek Empire and Sarah Jane Smith along the way.