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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alan Partridge, the famous local radio DJ and TV host, finds himself at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he's getting fired when the new owners decide to convert the station to talk radio.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At WNYX, New York's second highest rated news radio station, a cast of strong and idiosyncratic personalities repeatedly clash--yet somehow manage to keep the station afloat.
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Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 229 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"While there have been plenty of hatchet jobs on Rush Limbaugh, this is the first serious examination of his career and persona. Expanded from Zev Chafets's much-discussed cover story for The New York Times Magazine, this is a penetrating biography of a leading conservative power player. For more than twenty years, Limbaugh has used his microphone to entertain and enrage the largest audience in American broadcasting, and has set the agenda for the...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
198 pages
Description
"Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell fell in love with country music. Abandoned by his father at the age of five, Bobby saw the radio as his way out?a dream that came true in college when he went on air at the Henderson State University campus station broadcasting as Bobby Bones, while simultaneously starting The Bobby Bones Show at 105.9 KLAZ. Bobby?s passions were pop, country music, and comedy, and...
Author
Series
Father Dowling mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
549 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 401 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Each week over a million and a half listeners tune into WTF with Marc Maron to hear Marc and a guest do something remarkable: talk. Waiting for the Punch is not simply a collection of these interviews, but instead something more wondrous: a running narrative of the world's most recognizable names working through the problems, doubts, joys, triumphs and failures we all experience. With each chapter covering a different topic: parenting, childhood,...
10) World in my eyes
Author
Publisher
Indigo River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 513 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
The author recounts his life story from the 1960s on, including his experiences at Oxford, in Europe's clubs and on morning radio in L.A., as well as his personal connections to some of the most notable names in New wave music.
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Publisher
Santa Monica Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
312 pages cm
Description
"As a reporter, columnist, editor, and pioneer of sports talk radio, the Steamer dished out insight and understanding to Southern California sports fans while Los Angeles grew into a sports empire. On his watch, L.A. acquired the Rams from Cleveland, the Dodgers from Brooklyn, and the Lakers from Minneapolis. He covered them all while they won championships for the city. It was the same with USC football, UCLA basketball, the horse races, and boxing...
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Description
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth's legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated "on the basis of sex" to be unconstitutional. In a time when women...
16) On my own
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A Place for My Stuff," to "Religion is Bullshit," he perfected the art of making audiences double over with laughter while simultaneously making people wake up to the realities (and insanities) of life in the twentieth century. Few people glimpsed the inner life of this beloved...
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