Book description
Fi Glover is a bit of a traveller. She loves hotels, air stewardesses
and fluffy towelling robes, but above all, she loves radio. One night,
whilst recording BBC 2's Travel Show, she found herself in the far
reaches of Texas, suffering from a night of line-dancing and an
over-enthusiastic radio DJ. She started to wonder about all the places
she'd ended up in, all the radio DJs she'd listened to, the way a new
radio station made her feel at home and yet gave her the fastest insight
into an alien city or community. She decided to take a journey around
the world collecting hotel freebies and DJs - from the charismatic Rose
who guided Montserrat through the tragedy of their volcanic eruption to
Dr Laura, who talks the dysfunctional of New York through their
psychotic days; from the peace-keeping corps of Beirut and their
radio-station-in-a-hut to the despairing English football broadcasters
in their radio-station-above-a-caf- in Brussels 2000. From Somerset to
Beirut, Las Vegas to Vienna, Travels With My Radio is a wonderfully
funny and strangely moving quest to find the perfect radio station.
Previously a much-loved voice of GLR, Fi Glover is currently the host of
BBC Radio Five's subversive Sunday Service, and has presented several
series of BBC 2's somewhat less subversive Travel Show.
