Robert Giddings Libri

Exploring the evolution of the classic serial, this book examines its adaptation from BBC Radio Drama to television, highlighting the impact of color, global markets, and competitive ratings. It delves into how social, economic, technical, and cultural changes have transformed the genre over sixty years. Richly detailed, the narrative is enhanced by interviews with performers and media professionals, providing unique insights into the industry's response to these developments.

Robert Selby’s first collection introduces a poet of outstanding range and versatility. Here are dramatic monologues and personae, poems of war and in memoriam, moving personal lyrics and portraits of hearth and history. In plain-dealing, serious addresses, Selby meets the reader with candour and subtle, finely-tuned music, earning the company of a line of poets which runs from Hardy through Larkin and which, with feeling and restraint, sings love songs of England.