{"product_id":"listen-in-beaty-rubens-9781851246311","title":"Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntimate stories that offer entertaining perspectives on what it was like to engage with radio when it was new.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensational. Between 1922 and 1939, British life was transformed by what was known as the Radio Craze. \u003ci\u003eListen In\u003c\/i\u003e expresses what the radio's arrival signified at a personal level. This narrative history recounts the perspective of listeners who adopted the then radical form of communication technology, invested in their first-ever gadgets, and tuned in by their firesides to outside voices, music, SOS calls, the Pips, news, sports, royalty, and innovative radiogenic comedy. \u003ci\u003eListen In\u003c\/i\u003e also traces how radio affected family life by exploring whether it altered dynamics between children and adults, changed relationships between women and men, as well as affected class and a wider sense of nationhood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Packed with touching stories and anecdotes, \u003ci\u003eListen In\u003c\/i\u003e comes at a timely moment when traditional linear radio is shifting, and the experience of how people consume audio is once again transforming. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beaty Rubens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1851246312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781851246311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bodleian Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Beaty Rubens","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46526443913471,"sku":"9781851246311","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e15d8cf1-6b6b-4d17-b706-fd0c3d845f9d.jpg?v=1737556201","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/listen-in-beaty-rubens-9781851246311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}