The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and Other Train Wrecks 

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'Searingly honest... gripping... fascinating and hugely entertaining.'Sunday Times

'Justin is a great broadcaster because he sounds like a real human being. This hugely entertaining book helps explain why'. John Humphrys

'Moving and frank ... A story of a childhood defined by loneliness, the absence of a father and the grim experience of a Quaker boarding school. It is also one of the most perceptive accounts of Britain in the 1970s.' Misha Glenny 
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Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. 

Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological problems, and his step-father's untreated ones, life at home was dysfunctional at best. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker boarding school wasn't much better. 

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. 

 Candid, unsparing and darkly funny, Justin Webb's 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?
 
 
 
 
 




        

            
            

                
Publisher
                
Doubleday
            
            
            

                
Dimensions
                
14.61 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
            
            
            

                
Language
                
English
            
            
            

                
Print length
                
256 pages
            
            
            

                
Book Type
                
Hardcover
            
            
            

                
ISBN-10
                
085752772X
            
            
            

                
ISBN-13
                
978-0857527721
            
            
            

                
Publication date
                
10 Feb. 2022
            
            
        
         





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