Martin Cooper is Assistant Subject Leader Emeritus in the Department of Journalism & Media at the University of Huddersfield, UK, teaching radio theory and practice. He has worked for BBC radio for 20 years, as a reporter, DJ/presenter and news editor. After PhD research into the cultural history of Brazil's railways, he became a freelance broadcaster, radio trainer and academic. He has worked as a freelance newsreader for BBC Radios Leeds and York, and has a weekly chat show on Branch FM, Dewsbury, UK.
A fascinating and highly readable account of the representation of radio in other media. Martin Cooper’s history of a hundred years of radio in song, films, novels and television programmes is both a highly entertaining and fascinating read and also an important new source for radio historians. The perfect book to celebrate the one hundred years of radio broadcasting in Britain. * Hugh Chignell, Emeritus Professor of Media History, Bournemouth University, UK * Radio’s Legacy in Popular Culture is a very readable, original, and well-researched book, which will be widely used by media studies students and hopefully appreciated by many outside of academia. -- David Harris * Pratical Wireless *