Last Train to Hilversum

Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over a billion hours of listening between us every week. It''s a background to all our lives: we wake up to our clock radios, we have the radio on in the kitchen as we make the tea, it''s on at our workplaces and in our cars. From Listen With Mother to the illicit thrill of...