Bedtime Stories
21 Years Behind the Mike at RN's Late Night Live
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4.6 • 7 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Reflections on 21 years behind the microphone at one of Radio National's flagship programs, Late Night Live, the people and the places which made it the cutting edge radio it continues to be today.
For 21 years Phillip Adams has been the witty, smooth and informed voice of Late Night Live on ABC Radio National. In the studio he bats questions to world leaders, thinkers, ideologues, crackpots and gurus. But what about the stories that don't make it to air? the ones about the guests who don't behave, the tricky questions that must be asked, the interviewees who don't pause for breath or - worse - who refuse to speak?Here, Phillip shares the secrets of his radio days from when he was looked upon as a commercial upstart to when Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, Kevin Rudd and so many others have lined up to be interviewed by him. He reflects on the sometimes comic, sometimes poignant, sometimes fraught art of putting together live radio, for a show where anything could happen and almost everything has.
Customer Reviews
A seat beside the master
For me, Phillip Adams has always represented focussed reason and intelligent commentary in our media; his is a voice that doesn’t need to shout, aggressively market or retreat to the cult of personality. His is a reassuring presence as Australia wades further into the mire of global discontent and uncertainty.
In "Bedtime Stories: 21 Years Behind the Mike at RN’s Late Night Live", we are afforded a seat at the console beside this veteran and revered broadcaster. Adams shares with the reader his insights and reflections on his many meetings with the fascinating, influential, powerful and disturbing; it is so much more than a behind-the-scenes journey into his unique world of broadcasting. A most rewarding memoir.