The Pictures are Better on the Radio: A Fan's Love Affair with Sport on the Wireless - Softcover

Carroll-Smith, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785310615 ISBN 13: 9781785310614

Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The funny, heart-warming tale of Adam Carroll-Smith's enduring love of sport on the radio - a uniquely personal collection of memories with the power to generate a shared, nostalgic sense of deja vu. From furtively listening to Premier League matches under his duvet as a boy, to secretly following Ashes Tests and World Cups when he should have been working, all the way to sleep-deprived nocturnal sessions with the Super Bowl and the Ryder Cup, and long afternoons at Wimbledon, The Pictures are Better on the Radio tells the story of how one fan fell in love with sport on the wireless. Full of acute observations, touching anecdotes and Adam's customary mix of deadpan and absurdist humour, the memoir effortlessly gets to the heart of what it means to be a sports obsessive, and explores why radio continues to be such a cherished medium for fans across the world.

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Pictures are Better on the Radio

Review:

"A lovely reminder of how sport on the radio can be so great." --Tim Peach, BBC Radio 5Live

"A totally enjoyable thing to read." --John Osborne, author of Radiohead: Up and Down the Dial of British Radio

"Beautifully written. An excellent read." Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3's The Verb; BBC Radio 4

"A lovingly-crafted homage to what used to be called the wireless. He argues a passionate, amusing defence of radio's importance in an era when it is becoming increasingly expensive and prohibitive to watch sport on TV." --Blackpool Gazette Book of the Week

"Adam's reminiscences are interesting and varied. In his amusing way, [he] makes a very entertaining case for listening to sports commentary by radio and I am sure that many radio commentators and fans alike will enjoy The Pictures Are Better On The Radio." --AndrewRobertsCricketStatistics.com

"For the author, much of the joy comes from the medium, not the event itself. And there are several chapters on cricket which evoke perfectly the pleasures and the anguish of those series and the broadcasts that delivered them." --The Cricket Statistician

"The whole book is a thoroughly entertaining read." --RajeshKumarCricketStatistician.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1785310615
• ISBN 13: 9781785310614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192