Radio City

It's 1999, and Eira Hart and Ru Tattersall are set up to co-host The Lonely Harts Club, a new late-night radio show to help New Yorkers find love. It's a last chance attempt for both Eira, expert in Celtic mythology and amateur Welsh matchmaker, and Ru, once-hot-shot Aussie DJ, to achieve their New York dreams. The thing is, you either click with a co-host, or you don’t. It’s a bit like falling in love. There’s co-host chemistry, or there isn’t. With the countdown to a new millennium, it feels like the world as they know it is about to end.

Baltimore City Public Schools is one of America’s largest and most funded school systems. Yet, historically, it is among the lowest performing. In 2024, despite a $1.7 billion budget, just 10% of students tested proficient in math. Investigative journalist Chris Papst follows the money to uncover why students continue to fail within a school system that’s failing Baltimore. Failure Factory shines a critical light on America’s public education system by exposing what’s really happening inside classrooms and behind administrative doors.

A SPECTATOR AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times 'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - and often feared - by the West' Vogue Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of...

Mike Stack was born to power and followed his father and grandfather into the ring of fire of Philadelphia politics. He was groomed for office, and was running in his early 20s. After years of failure, he upset a top Senator with the help of his former adversary, the prince of darkness, Vincent J Fumo, arguably the most powerful politician in Pennsylvania and maybe America. Fumo became Mike's most important friend, and the roller coaster ride through the corridors of power and row home streets of Philly took place by his side. Soon came a storm of corruption investigations and Fumo was ...

“America is supposed to be the land of opportunity—where any poor kid can grow up to become a millionaire. That’s the story. But I’ma tell you how it really went down.” —Ms. Pat From the author of the acclaimed memoir Rabbit and star of BET’s The Ms. Pat Show, a heartfelt, raw, and...

THE GRAND OLE OPRY: How Nashville and Country Music Found Each Other in the 1920s Volume 1 of The Country Music Chronicles In 1920, Nashville was a city where music came and went. By 1930, it had become the permanent home of country music. This is the story of how that transformation happened—and why it changed American culture forever. Before the Grand Ole Opry, before WSM Radio's 50,000-watt signal reached millions, before the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers became legends, Nashville was just another Southern city listening to sounds passing through. Country music existed only in ...

In the depths of the Great Depression a group of soaring skyscrapers took shape in New York City. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. financed a project comprised of office buildings, plazas, and theatres on a scale never imagined for any metropolis. And to complete the dream he lured Samuel Lionel Rothafel--"Roxy"--to work his magic on two magnificent theatres: the cavernous Radio City Music Hall and a smaller, now-demolished sister theatre, the R-K-O Roxy. Both of these modern entertainment houses were equipped with pipe organs--resources that Roxy required to create his special and well-known brand...

The twisty, intricate mystery of I Killed Zoe Spanos meets the whip-smart sleuthing of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in the newest novel from acclaimed author Faith Gardner, in which a club of misfits must come together to solve a dangerous mystery—and learn to lean on each other all the...

Dramatisations of Calvino’s most famous works, starring Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook, plus bonus programmes Italo Calvino was one of the 20th Century's great experimenters, who consistently pushed the boundaries of literature. His works ranged from fantasy and science fiction to folktales...

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter. Over the past three...

Performed by Meryl Streep Here is one of twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever writes in his preface, "These stories seem at times to be...

BLACK CRACKER is a reflection by the author on prejudices from his experiences that include extensive travel and exposure to many different cultures. His autobiography provides the reader with the filter through which he sees the world. Share his sometimes happy, angry, sad, frightened, comical, confused or loving look at himself and others. Every person has a story, and this one is worth hearing.

'Sharp, swoon-worthy, and profoundly romantic – First Time Caller is brimming with heart' – Lyla Sage, author of Done and Dusted 'A beautiful, steamy, effervescent romance' – Sarah Adams, author of The Cheat Sheet A hopeless romantic meets a demoralized radio host in this cosy, Sleepless...

One Great Author. One Great CD. Here are two magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have. As Cheever wrote, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled...

A collection of four blackly humorous crime mysteries featuring the fictional BBC Radio crime correspondent, George Cragge. Adapted from the novel by Mark Tavener, In the Red sees the anarchic George Cragge investigate a spree of bizarre murders in the world of City finance, a small political...

Vacances. Bled paumé. Cinq ados dans l'ennui total. Rafael vient de rejoindre le village et cette bande, et il ne connaît pas encore les mystères qui animent « Horror city », comme on le surnomme… Et lorsque la pluie les pousse à se réfugier dans un local radio abandonné, tout tourne mal. Quelles sont les ondes que la machine d'Emma a perçu ? Quel est donc l'étrange mal qui touche Lola ? Comment fuir cet endroit ? D'où viennent ces phénomènes mystérieux qui touchent Horror city ? Et surtout, de Clément, Nolan, Raf, Emma et Lola et Alex... Combien ressortiront-ils du tunnel ?

“It was so obvious she had something. You know, she was 13, and she had that sparkle. So much sparkle dust around her,” - Renee Bell, head of A&R at RCA Records Meet Taylor, 2003. She's a teen who came to Nashville with blisters on her fingers from learning to play a 12-string guitar. In...

An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwright Born and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker...

When the Radio City Theatres complex was conceived by New York's Associated Architects in the 1930's, the RKO Roxy Theatre was an important part of the scheme. Later renamed the Center Theatre due to a lawsuit over the use of the name "Roxy" by the owners of S.L. Rothafel's original "cathedral," the brilliantly designed building is the only major portion of Rockefeller Center to ever be destroyed. It fell to the wreckers in 1954 in a time when a full appreciation for its deco and moderne style had not come to fruition. It is a regrettable part of man's destructiveness in the name of ...

Bloomsbury presents In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie, read by Mikhail Sen. For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star Hasan lives an idyllic childhood of abundance: of pomegranates and cricket and ostensible serenity. This illusory veneer of calm is shattered when...