From Publishers Weekly
A seasoned BBC Radio presenter, Glover is no stranger to the audio medium. Her friendly, down-to-earth delivery and pleasant British accent make her tales all the more appealing. A huge fan of radio, Glover took a few months off to travel the world and visit interesting, quirky radio stations in different countries. Among them: a Viennese station with programs that taught English idioms for traveling international businessmen (and which, at the time of Glover's arrival, was about to switch to an all-music format); a station in Beirut run by and for homesick Irish soldiers; a station in Montserrat that provided crucial information and emotional support to the inhabitants during devastating volcanic eruptions and their aftermath; and the home base of Dr. Joy Browne, whose advice call-in show is syndicated across America. Glover is endearingly honest, especially when recounting her frustrating and fruitless efforts to contact paranormal radio host Art Bell, and her nervousness at being in Beirut, fearing personal danger. Glover's enthusiasm for radio is contagious. She marvels at the fact that in any country in the world, one can turn on the local radio station and immediately find out what's on the minds of the natives, and embraces the arrival of Internet radio, which allows one to hear stations all over the globe without leaving home.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Review
“Her wit is brut dry.” – Anne Karpf, Observer

“Glover is witty and, I’m afraid I have to say it, feisty to boot.” – Stephen Armstrong, The Times

See all Editorial Reviews

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can make it available as an eBook on Amazon.com. Learn more

I own it Not rated Your rating Don't like it < > I love it! Save your rating    ? 1 2 3 4 5

2 Reviews 5 star:  (2) 4 star:    (0) 3 star:    (0) 2 star:    (0) 1 star:    (0)           Average Customer Review (2 customer reviews)		Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Making Radio Waves, August 3, 2005 By  H. Cota "takingadayoff" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews       This review is from: I Am an Oil Tanker (Audio Cassette) Fi Glover, a dj on BBC in England, finds herself between radio gigs for a few months, and decides to see what radio is like in other countries. So she buys a wind-up radio that requires no batteries or electricity and sets off for some places she'd heard were interesting, radio-wise. Travels With My Radio is the result, a hodge-podge of radio adventures in Europe, America, Lebanon, and the Caribbean. The original title was I Am An Oil Tanker, based on a radio blooper made by a dj reading a breaking news bulletin. I'm glad the title was changed to something more straightforward because I would have ignored the book otherwise, thinking it was a children's book. As it was, I saw the title in a catalog (since Amazon doesn't sell the book, only the audiotape, I don't have any qualms about saying that I found it in The Common Reader catalog) and thought, what a great idea for a book. I always travel with a tiny transistor radio and enjoy hearing the different programs around the world. Since Glover is in the business, she gains access to stations and radio hosts wherever she goes and this behind-the-scenes look is quite revealing. She sets off determined to meet Howard Stern and Art Bell, as well as some less famous, less quirky radio personalities. At least half the book is set in the U.S., in California, Las Vegas, New York, and Chicago. Part of the fun of Travels With My Radio, for me, is the Britishness of it. (The book is not published in the U.S.) It's always fun to see what someone from abroad thinks of your country (Ciao, America by Beppe Severgnini, for example). Glover translates everything American into something her intended readers, Brits, will understand. So we end up with a New York traffic reporter saying "there's one flipped over on the carriageway in Queens," and a Santa Rosa dj saying "another beautiful summer day in Sonoma County with lows of 25 (celsius) on the coast." She misspells unfamiliar placenames: Pahrump, Nevada is consistently spelled Parumph and San Bernardino as San Bernadino. And she decides to take the Greyhound bus to Palm Springs fro