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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio ii The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio Edited by Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2023 Copyright © Kathryn McDonald, Hugh Chignell and contributors, 2023 For legal purposes the Acknowledgements on p. xiv constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover image @ iStock All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-8531-5 ePDF: 978-1-5013-8529-2 eBook: 978-1-5013-8530-8 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. Contents List of Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiv Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 1 Section I Entertainment Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 7 1 ‘Don’t Let ’Em Divide Us’: Free World Theatre and US Wartime Morale Drama Matthew A. Killmeier 10 2 Podcasting as a Music-Educational Practice Morten Michelsen 27 3 Hearing Age in Music Streaming: Well-being, Marketing and Older Listeners Christina Baade 44 4 Past the Gate: Women in Sports Talk Radio Lori Beckstead 62 5 Expressions of Radio Drama: Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice and the BBC Emily Best 79 6 Illuminated Radio: Imagination and Affect in the Tradition of the Audio ‘Feature’, ‘Acoustic Film’ and Radio Documentaire de Creation Virginia M. Madsen 95 9781501385315_txt_print.indd 5 15-11-2022 21:43:13 vi Contents Section II Listening Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 115 7 Tuning In and Listening Out: Intersections of Voice and Listening in Community Radio Bridget Backhaus 117 8 The Listener of the Future: Exploring Public Service Broadcasters’ Strategies about Radio Apps Marta Perrotta 131 9 Using a ‘Critical Ear’: Developing a Practitioner– Researcher Framework for Analytical Listening in Podcast Studies Britta Jorgensen 147 10 An Analysis of Black American Radio Listenership Kim Fox 162 Section III Emotions Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 173 11 Emotions in the Dark: A History of Late-Night French Radio Marine Beccarelli 175 12 The Radio Phone-in and the Suicidal Caller Kathryn McDonald 190 13 Presenting … Producers! And Producing Presenters Helen Wolfenden 208 14 Audio Within Audio: Phones, Materiality and the Elicitation of Emotion in Podcasting Evi Karathanasopoulou 226 Section IV Communities Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 243 9781501385315_txt_print.indd 6 15-11-2022 21:43:13 Contents vii 15 Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Community- Building Approaches Across Community Radio Katie Moylan 245 16 Feeding the Beast: What It Means to be a Community Radio Presenter in the UK Josephine Coleman 257 17 Daring to be Different! Ethnic Community Radio as a Space of Inclusion Gloria Khamkar 275 18 The Changing Context of Community Radio Lawrie Hallett 290 Section V Democracy Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 313 19 Dutch Radio News: From Public Polarization to Public Service Anya Luscombe 315 20 Still Serving the Public? News Provision on BBC Radio Katy McDonald 332 21 Spanish Radio in the Early Years of Democracy: Antena 3 Radio Pilar Dobón-Roux 348 Section VI Studying Radio Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 365 22 Studying 1960s Commercial Radio Richard Legay 367 23 Studying Radio: Researching Women in Radio Production in the Early BBC Kate Murphy 383 24 ‘Podcasting Radio on Podcasts’: Edutainment Podcasting Pedagogy for Radio Students During 9781501385315_txt_print.indd 7 15-11-2022 21:43:13 viii Contents COVID-19 Kylie Sturgess, Lauren O’Mahony, Kathryn Trees and Simon Order 398 25 The Place of Radio in the Soundscapes: Everyday Listening and Producing Sounds in Marginalized Communities of the Global South Andrea Medrado 415 Section VII Futures Introduction Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell 435 26 Queer Networks Versus Global Corporations: The Battle for the Soul of Audio Fiction Ella Watts 437 27 Recalling Radio: An Archival View from Radio’s Second Century Alexander Badenoch 453 28 Hyperlocal Radio: Reclaiming Conversation through Social Broadcasting Lucia Scazzocchio 473 29 Making Waves Behind Bars: The (Past, Present and) Future of Prison Radio Phil Maguire 486 30 Radio in the Round: Reflections on the Future of Sound Media Richard Berry 504 Index 520 9781501385315_txt_print.indd 8 15-11-2022 21:43:13 Contributors Christina Baade is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University, Canada. She researches popular music and sound media. Publications include her award-winning book Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II (2012) and three co-edited collections, most recently Beyoncé in the World (2021). Bridget Backhaus is a lecturer in journalism and media studies at Griffith University, Australia. A former community radio journalist and producer, her research explores the role of community media in social and environmental change with particular focus on issues of voice, listening, identity and participation. Alexander Badenoch is Endowed Professor of Transnational Media at the Free University of Amsterdam and Assistant Professor in Media and Culture at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the transnational entanglements of broadcasting in post-war Europe, as well as digital archives and audio-visual heritage. Marine Beccarelli is a doctor in media history, teaching at Paris 1 University. She published the book Micros de nuit about the history of French night-time radio (2021). She also worked for the radio station France Culture and wrote the podcast Les Nuits du bout des ondes, a fiction about night and radio. Lori Beckstead is an associate professor and director of the Allan Slaight Radio Institute in the RTA School of Media at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson U). She teaches courses in radio, podcasting, sound design and sound studies and is co-producer and co-host of The Podcast Studies Podcast. Richard Berry is a senior lecturer in radio in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of Sunderland. He published one of the earliest academic articles on podcasting in 2006 and helped to develop the field of podcast studies. His research explores the intersections between radio and new technologies, how the internet generates new opportunities for producers and listeners, and how these trends might change our understanding of what radio is.