This reference work contains exhaustive histories of 31 of network radio's most durable soap operas on the air between 1930 and 1960. The soap operas ...

How was it that America would fund its nascent national radio services? Government control and a subscription-like model were both considered! Soon ...

Long before the invention of "talk radio," music was the heart and soul of radio programming--whether standing alone, filling in the time between features ...

That "kindly old investigator," Mr. Keen , sought missing persons and unraveled crimes longer than any other fictional detective ever heard or seen ...

In the days before television, radio was the constant voice in American life. When radio spoke, America listened--especially to the men and women who ...

This work contains the histories of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Art Linkletter's House Party, Break the Bank, The Breakfast Club, Bride and Groom ...

The dictionary section, made up of more than 500 cross-referenced entries, provides brief vignettes of the more popular and also less well-known "soaps ...

Teenage pregnancy rates in the UK are among the highest in Western Europe. This book explains the issues surrounding pregnancy in the early teenage years ...