Justin Webb – The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and Other Trainwrecks

Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme Today. For the best part of four decades, he has been a voice on the airwaves or a presence on our TV screens. Among his awards is Political Journalist of the Year, which he won for his coverage of the Obama presidential campaign. A regular columnist in The Times, he lives with his family in South London.

His memoir, The Gift of a Radio, is a candid, unsparing and darkly funny portrait of personal and national dysfunction, drawing on themes of mental health, masculinity, grief, childhood guilt and what privilege looks like, set against a background of Led Zeppelin, IRA bombings, strikes and the odd gun-wielding schoolmaster in 70s Britain.

‘A very fine memoir indeed.’
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

‘Justin is a great broadcaster because he sounds like a real human being. This hugely entertaining book helps explain why.’
JOHN HUMPHRYS

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