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Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president.
Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities—discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality, and success with the boldest of bold-faced names. But which interviews are his favorites? It’s one of the questions he gets asked most frequently. Howard Stern Comes Again delivers his answer.
This book is a feast of conversation and more, as between the lines Stern offers his definitive autobiography—a magnum opus of confession and personal exploration. Tracy Morgan opens up about his near-fatal car crash. Lady Gaga divulges her history with cocaine. Madonna reminisces on her relationship with Tupac Shakur. Bill Murray waxes philosophical on the purpose of life. Jerry Seinfeld offers a master class on comedy. Harvey Weinstein denies the existence of the so-called casting couch. An impressive array of creative visionaries weigh in on what Stern calls “the climb”—the stories of how they struggled and eventually prevailed. As he writes in the introduction, “If you’re having trouble finding motivation in life and you’re looking for that extra kick in the ass, you will find it in these pages.”
Interspersed throughout are rare selections from the Howard Stern Show archives with Donald Trump that depict his own climb: transforming from Manhattan tabloid fixture to reality TV star to president of the United States. Stern also tells of his Moby Dick-like quest to land an interview with Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the 2016 election—one of many newly written revelations from the author. He speaks with extraordinary candor about a variety of subjects, including his overwhelming insecurity early in his career, his revolutionary move from terrestrial radio to SiriusXM, and his belief in the power of psychotherapy.
As Stern insightfully notes in the introduction: “The interviews collected here represent my best work and show my personal evolution. But they don’t just show my evolution. Gathered together like this, they show the evolution of popular culture over the past quarter century.”
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio
listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging
contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program's 40th
anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most
striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers
Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North
America and around the world that have appeared on the program
since its beginnings in 1965, Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their
Minds touches upon societal values, how we govern ourselves, and
navigating in the international community. In this remarkable book,
Bernie Lucht, winner of the John Drainie Award for broadcast
journalism, introduces readers to the origins of the
ground-breaking program and to "the best ideas you'll hear
tonight." Since the beginning, geopolitics has been one of the
significant concerns of the program, and issues such as democracy,
dictatorships, the nature of the nation-state, the public good,
ideology, religion, peace and violence keep returning to the fore.
Although many of the topics have been around for decades, the
questions remain startlingly topical today, even in a radically
changed world. Exploring geopolitics writ large, Ideas features
interviews, lectures and radio documentaries with such influential
contemporary thinkers as Tariq Ali, Michael Bliss, Noam Chomsky,
Ursula Franklin, Northrop Frye, Bernard Lewis, Margaret MacMillan,
James Orbinski, and many, many others. While each thinker speaks
from his or her specific experience in time, the themes and
concerns resonate as much today as they did last week or forty
years ago.
A full-cast dramatisation of Neil Gaiman's magical retellings of
the Norse myths, inviting us into a world of gods and monsters,
tricks and trust, fiery endings and new beginnings Winner of The
London Book Fair CAMEO Award 2020 for Book to Audio adaptation.
'And the game begins anew...' Meet the trickster god Loki and his
astonishing children - the giant wolf Fenrir, Jormungundr the snake
that encircles the world, and Hel, the little girl who grows up to
be Queen of the dead. Here, too, is Odin the all-father, who
sacrificed his eye to see the future; Thor the thunderer, who
defends Asgard with his fearsome strength and mighty hammer; and
Freya the understandably angry, most beautiful of the gods and
always being gambled for by unwanted suitors. From the beginning of
the universe in fire and ice, to the very end of the world,
Ragnarok, these enthralling tales of gods, goddesses, dwarves and
giants bring the ancient myths to vigorous life. Diana Rigg, Derek
Jacobi, Colin Morgan, Natalie Dormer and Neil Gaiman himself are
among the stellar cast in these spellbinding stories of old
betrayals - and new hope.
This book examines the history of UK radio from its analogue
beginnings to its digital future by highlighting the roles played
by the BBC and commercial radio in ensuring the medium's long-term
success. Beginning as a mere technological innovation, radio
developed into a broadcasting model which has sustained for almost
one hundred years. The UK model was defined by a public service
broadcaster responsible for maintaining standards of broadcasting,
as well as commercial operators-acting illegally and then
legally-who have sought to exploit radio's economic potential. This
book aims to show how both these entities have contributed to the
success of radio in the UK, whether acting competitively or by
cooperating in order to ensure radio's survival into the next
century. This study will appeal to students of media or anyone with
a general interest in the history of radio.
Acoustic signals, voice, sound, articulation, music and spatial
networking are dispositifs of radiophonic transmission which have
brought forth a great number of artistic practices. Up to and into
the digital present radio has been and is employed and explored as
an apparatus-based structure as well as an expanded model for
performance and perception. This volume investigates a broad range
of aesthetic experiments with the broadcasting technology of radio,
and the use of radio as a means of disseminating artistic concepts.
With exemplary case studies, its contributions link conceptual,
recipient-response-related, and sociocultural issues to matters of
relevance to radio art's mediation.
Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker
charts his 30 years in showbiz Danny Baker was born in Deptford,
South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved
in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine Sniffin' Glue,
alongside friend Mark Perry. From there he moved to documentary
series for LWT and over the years worked on a variety of quiz shows
(Win, Lose or Draw, Pets Win Prizes, TV Heroes), as well two
television commercials which made him a household name - Daz and
Mars Bars. This book charts Danny's showbiz career, the highs and
lows, and everything in between, including the accusation that he
killed Bob Marley ...
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