RADIO LADIES: CANADA'S WOMEN ON THE AIR
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Radio Ladies: Canada's Women On The Air: 1922-1975
ISBN 978-0-9866105-5-4
© Magnetewan Publishing 2012

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The Golden Age of Radio!  Radio Ladies takes you from coast to coast in Canada with women who paved the way for today's broadcasters.  Recent interviews with the legends of Canadian radio and profiled careers and memories of other radio stars who pioneered on the air in Canada.  Radio Ladies is a 268-page, perfect bound, soft-cover book covering women in Canadian radio history from 1922 to 1975.  And, this is the first Canadian radio history book to include First Nation and Quebec broadcasters.  Radio Ladies comes complete with vintage photos, 1940s fan letters and more.  Radio Ladies includes an extensive Selected Bibliography and Index.  Return to the Magic of Radio via first-person memories of women who stepped up to the mic in Canada and broadcast our national history.  Through The Great Depression, the Second World War, mining disasters, Canada's emerging music scene, the Polio epidemic, the Dirty Thirties, small-town news, the Terry Fox story, the War in the Falklands, the FLQ crisis and Hurricane Hazel - women and radio linked people to their communities and to each other, in urgent times and in everyday life.  Now revised to include new material.

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