Historical Dictionary of British Radio (2nd edition)

Many readers of Reference Reviews, this reviewer among them, will staunchly defend the continued publication of printed reference books. Although so much information can be rapidly found from online sources, a reference book often provides authority which may be lacking from a webpage.

But for British radio, the subject of this particular volume in the Historical Dictionary series there is a highly authoritative online source, the BBC webpages: www.bbc.co.uk. Of course, this Dictionary covers much more than the BBC, although there are 18 pages of entries under that heading alone, and it does provide a single point...