The gift of a radio : my childhood and other train wrecks /
by Webb, Justin.
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BookPublisher: London : Doubleday, 2022Description: 245 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780857527721 (hbk.) :; 085752772X (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 WEBSubject(s): Webb, Justin | Radio broadcasters -- Great Britain -- Biography | Quakers -- Great Britain | Nineteen seventies | Biography | Biography | c 1970 to c 1979 | Biography & non-fiction prose | Memoirs | Cinema, TV & Radio industries | Local & family history, nostalgiaSummary: Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological problems, and his step-father's untreated ones, life at home was dysfunctional at best. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker boarding school wasn't much better. The backdrop to this coming of age story is Britain in the 1970s: Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Free; strikes, inflation and IRA bombings. A time in which attitudes towards mental illness, parenting and masculinity were worlds apart from the attitudes we have today. A society that believed itself to be close to the edge of breakdown. Candid, unsparing and darkly funny, Justin Webb's memoir is a portrait of personal and national dysfunction.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 920 WEB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003103505X | |||
| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 920 WEB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003104127X |
Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological problems, and his step-father's untreated ones, life at home was dysfunctional at best. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker boarding school wasn't much better. The backdrop to this coming of age story is Britain in the 1970s: Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Free; strikes, inflation and IRA bombings. A time in which attitudes towards mental illness, parenting and masculinity were worlds apart from the attitudes we have today. A society that believed itself to be close to the edge of breakdown. Candid, unsparing and darkly funny, Justin Webb's memoir is a portrait of personal and national dysfunction.
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