Media / Broadcasting / Radio / Television from Goldring Books

London: Simon and Schuster, 1992. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format book of 176 pages. Photo illustrations throughout. Foreword by W.F. Deedes They were called 'the Swinging Sixties'. Skirts were short and the music was loud. In San Francisco the beautiful people had flowers in their hair. President… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1980. A Very Good+ copy which has a very small mark to front endpaper and light creasing to the first few pages else clean and unmarked with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. This large format volume celebrates in words and pictures his memorable television performances. For the first time we strip the gauze from… Read more about this item

London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a crease to front. A large square format volume of 384 pages. 537 colour illustrations. Drawing on the unrivalled resources of Reuters, the world's biggest international news agency, The State of the World explores nine major themes that together provide a balance sheet… Read more about this item

London: Newnes-Butterworths, 1979. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a name label to inside front cover. 191 pages. An invaluable compendium of facts, figures and formulae, indispensable to the designer, student service engineer, and all interested in radio and electronics. This edition has been completely revised. The omission of obsolete and unnecessary information has made room for… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. A very large format volume of 192 pages. 171 pages of illustrations. Introduction by Art Buchwald. On October 4th.1887, the eccentric American millionaire, James Gordon Bennett, Jr,. the son of the publisher of the New York Herald, decided to publish an English language newspaper… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. xi + 353 pages. Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress, and he waged a private battle to save it. His only weapons were words - the poetry for which… Read more about this item

London: Simon and Schuster, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First dition, First printing. 290 pages. Greg Dyke's astonishing rags-to-riches rise from sacked Marks and Spencer trainee via a short career as a Labour politician to become the most important person in British broadcasting is recounted in a series of extraordinary episodes… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1969. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has two small repaired closed tears and is not price clipped. Alistair Cooke's 'Letter from America' was a familiar weekly pleasure for millions of listeners in Britain and elsewherefor a great many years. A first collection of his broadcasts was published in 1952 and in 1968… Read more about this item

London: Methuen, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. xvi + 352 pages. 78 illustrations. For fifteen years Brian Johnston presented BBC Radio 4's Down Your Way, the last from Lord's Cricket Ground. From the wealth of material collected for the prorammes, he has here selected the most interesting and unusual items to represent the whole range of… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 2006. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a price written on front endpaper) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. The Sharpe television series, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell, and starring Sean Bean, was a well received historical drama. The author spent six months of the filming… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. xvi + 396 pages. 31 illustrations. The award winning journalist's memoir is the account of an extraordinary journey, a story about bearing witness to horror but also confronting the ghosts within. At its heart is the story of a… Read more about this item

London: Harvill Secker, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.x + 323 pages. Map endpapers. Translated from the Russian by Arch Tait. Foreword by Jon Snow. A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from… Read more about this item

London: Little Brown, 1997. SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH DEDICATION on title page. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Foreword by Bamber Gascoigne. 'It's only a bloody game!'. Thus Magnus Magnusson's words of reassurance at the start of every 'Mastermind' programme, in an attempt to cheer up the nervous contestants as they awaited… Read more about this item

London: Orion, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. From its beginning in 1972, the television programme 'Emmerdale' has become an institution, regularly attracting audiences of 13 million. The book is a celebration of its silver jubilee, in which the author has been given unique access to the cast and crew, tracing the serial's… Read more about this item

Kettering, Northants: Index / Granada, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards with Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. Britain's best-loved drama serial has held its television audience in thrall for over 3 decades.The full story of everything that has happened in Coronation Street, both fact and fiction, since Granada Television launched the programme in 1960, is told… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. The book by the Special Correspondent for the Associated Press, offers a sharp, incisive and candid analysis of the reasons why the public isn't getting enough information to follow the events that shape their lives. Drawing on 25 years expeience in 180… Read more about this item

London: B.T. Batsford, 1985. A near Fine copy with a gift inscription to front endpaper with VG+ dustjacket which has fading to spine and has been lightly taped to inside boards. 319 pages. Radio pictorial station chart endpapers. Foreword by Richard Murdoch. Over 1600 entries make up this, the first ever reference guide to the programmes, the entertainers, the dance… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Bernard Braden and his wife Barbara Kelly arrived in Britain from Canada in 1949 not realising that within months they would have captured the imagination and hearts of the British public. Barbara starred in 'The Male Animal' at the New Theatre, then… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1988. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 444 pages. 24 illustrations. This is a memoir of a man who has experienced more in his lifetime than most dream of. Aidan Crawley (1908-1993) was a journalist in the 1930's making an epic tour of the world, a dairy farmer, an RAF pilot who… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1990. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Vitaliev has travelled all over the country following up leads - a special correspondent, indeed, and this, his first book published outside the Soviet Union, reads like a novel of true crime and scandal : the prostitutes who 'officially' do not exist; the Godfather-like… Read more about this item