Travels With My Radio

by Fi Glover

Fi Glover is a bit of a traveller. She loves hotels, air stewardesses and fluffy towelling robes, but above all, she loves radio. 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 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.

Genres: Travel

352 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2002

Reviews

[Bex]

Bought I on a Bill Bryson kick years ago, three times Ive tried to read it and got bored. Perhaps it’s because I’m not a radio listener or perhaps it is dated but this one can go now.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite as geographically wide-ranging as I'd hoped; U.S. radio takes up quite a bit of the space. Still, the author does a good job varying the programming covered during her travels.