Justin Webb - The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks Chaired by Ruth Wishart
Justin Webb - The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks Chaired by Ruth Wishart
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The candid, unsparing and darkly
funny memoir from the Radio 4 broadcaster and journalist.
And the backdrop to this coming of age story?
Britain in the 1970s. Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Free. Strikes, inflation
and IRA bombings. A time in which attitudes towards mental illness, parenting
and masculinity were worlds apart from the attitudes we have today. A society
that believed itself to be close to the edge of breakdown.
His memoir is a portrait of personal and
national dysfunction. So was it the brutal experiences of his upbringing, or an
innate ambition and drive that somehow survived them, that shaped the urbane
and successful radio presenter we know and love now?
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