Family Radio

Frances Janvier spends most of her time studying. Everyone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight A's. You probably think that they are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and she is a girl. They don't. They make a podcast. In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie-cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year.

For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: the Ark - a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm. Being part of the Ark’s fandom has given her everything she loves - her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in the world. Jimmy Kaga-Ricci owes everything to the Ark. He’s their frontman - and playing in a band with his mates is all he ever dreamed of doing. But dreams don’t always turn out the way you think.

Prepare for any emergency with The Complete Baofeng Radio Bible, the most comprehensive and detailed guide designed for preppers, guerillas, and off-grid enthusiasts. This book takes you beyond basic communication, diving deep into tactical Baofeng radio operations, so you can protect your family and thrive in any crisis. Whether you’re new to radio communication or a seasoned pro, this book equips you with the knowledge to use your Baofeng radio like an expert.

Delilah, the most listened-to woman on American radio, has distinguished herself as the “Queen of Sappy Love Songs” and America’s ultimate romance guru. But Delilah’s life off-air is all the more extraordinary - a life full of trials, forgiveness, faith, and adventure. In One Heart at a Time, Delilah’s heartfelt account of her own story reveals what shaped the voice that 9 million listeners know and love.

Janie Johnson's life has been in turmoil ever since she discovered she was kidnapped as a young child. Visiting and getting acquainted with her birth family was difficult. As the story spread throughout high school, facing her curious classmates was even worse. Maybe this year will be better now that she's no longer the focus of attention and she will be a mature junior. But late one night she hears her friend Reeve hosting a call-in program on a college radio station. To her horror, he reveals her story to his fans.

Janie Johnson has been on an emotional roller-coaster ride ever since she saw her face on the side of a milk carton. At first she thought the people she called Mom and Dad had kidnapped her. Then she learned they were only trying to protect her. Finally, she had to get acquainted with another whole new family. Now Janie's two families have made peace. But just as her life returns to normal, her Connecticut father suffers a stroke. With her mother reeling from the tragedy, Janie steps in to help manage the family finances.

Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers—or so it seems. After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit’s popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted. Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. But being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that and the only romances in his life are the ones he hears about from his listeners. Until he meets Dani Ford.

This dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed, epic, award-winning novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-20th century to 'one last Christmas' together near the turn of the millennium. A family saga, that sits against the backdrop of this century's changing face of America, the novel was published 10 days before 9/11 but is widely considered an observation of what happened to the American psyche after 9/11.

Haunted by the past, Henrietta throws herself into a new job transcribing other people’s life stories, vowing to stick to the facts and keep emotions at arm’s length. But when she meets the eccentric and terminally ill Annie, she finds herself inextricably drawn in. And when Annie reveals that her sister drowned in unexplained circumstances in 1974, Henrietta’s methodical mind can’t help following the story’s loose ends…

Four people in a small Vermont village are about to have their lives inexorably intertwined by the uncertainties of love . . . and the apparent absolutes of gender. All four characters—Allison, Dana, Carly, and Will—narrate this compelling story, spinning a tale that will keep you turning the pages with the eagerness we usually reserve for thrillers, while nodding in wonder at such a deeply moving and profoundly honest portrayal of longing, love, and desire.

Alice Green's lost and recently found eyewitness accounts of her childhood, her own war, the Golden Years of Radio, and the postwar housing shortage, are told from the light-hearted viewpoint of the shy, youngest child, who learns she can make even the stormy and outrageous characters in her own family laugh. With a little help from her son, who (just barely) lived to finish it, her story stands for unsung American women in war and survives as Alice's triumph.

Spike's your average awkward 11-year-old, funny and cheeky and with a mum to reckon with. When he becomes the first presenter ever to be sacked from hospital radio, he decides to carry on from a makeshift studio in the garden shed, with the help of his best friends, Artie and Holly, disguising his voice and going by the moniker Radio Boy. Week by week word gets around, and soon Spike is a star...if only people knew it was actually him.

Debut sensation Christian O'Connell is back with more hilarious adventures of Spike, superstar radio DJ...and trouble-prone ordinary kid. The world's youngest DJ is still the talk of the town. A town that's about to turn against him. Radio Boy and his team, Artie and Holly, are back and continue to broadcast live to the world from Spike's garden shed. Then, following a shock split from Nan, Grandad Ray comes to stay. Spike decides to cheer him up by inviting him onto the show.

From Brooklyn to Inglewood, here comes radio's favorite blue-collar family man—leaving a trail of confusion wherever he goes! Chester A. Riley is back, with long-suffering wife Peg, trouble-prone kids Junior and Babs, moochy pal Gillis, and Digger O'Dell, The Friendly Undertaker, in sixteen hilarious half-hour episodes. William Bendix is heard as Riley, along with co-stars Paula Winslowe, John Brown, Tommy Cook, and Barbara Eiler—plus series creator Irving Brecher, and special guest Red Skelton!

Family Theater is a dramatic anthology radio series that aired from 1947 to 1957. In this episode, a poor juggler of old France gives the mother of the Christ child the only present he can.

Father Peyton of the Holy Cross Fathers wanted to inspire his country with a radio program. Footing the expense of the show himself, he arranged for some of the biggest names in radio and film to donate their services, and for a network to provide the broadcast time. The series that resulted featured heartwarming stories for audiences nationwide. The commercial breaks were filled only with an earnest, non-sectarian appeal for family prayer, reminding listeners that "The family that prays together stays together."

Der Radio BERLIN-OHRENBÄR präsentiert: "Emma ist eben doch ein Glückskind" von Sigrid Zeevaert, gelesen von Leslie Malton. Alles könnte so schön sein, wenn Fritzi Emma nicht soeben die Freundschaft aufgekündigt hätte - fast ohne Grund. Emma vermisst ihn, auch wenn sie vorgibt, dass er ihr egal ist und es ja auch genug anderes für sie gibt. Zum Beispiel balanciert sie sowieso viel lieber über ein Seil, als mit Fritzi zu spielen. Außerdem gibt es noch Wuschel, ihren Hund, und den Ring, den Emma mit Papa für Mama aussuchen geht.

Der Radio BERLIN-OHRENBÄR präsentiert: "Linus und Leo sind längst nicht mehr klein" von Sigrid Zeevaert, gelesen von Leslie Malton. Linus und Leo sind nicht mehr klein. Natürlich sind sie nicht so groß wie Amelie, ihre älteste Schwester. Aber auch nicht mehr so klein, wie ihre andere Schwester Emma das immer behauptet und die lauter Geheimnisse mit ihrem Freund Fritzi hat. Unbemerkt folgen die Brüder ihr, als sie Wuschel, den Hund, ausführt. Dabei gehen sie fast verloren! Wenn da nicht Wuschel und eben Emma wären, die sie wieder aufspüren. Linus und Leo sind froh.

Die alte Frau Angelo hat Sorgen. Sie verkauft zwar das beste Eis der Stadt, aber jetzt ist Winter und die Leute trinken höchstens einen Espresso bei ihr. Wenn überhaupt. Denn seitdem gegenüber der Eisdiele eine Baustelle knattert, kommen nicht einmal mehr die Espressotrinker. Frau Angelo verkündet, dass sie die Eisdiele für immer schließen muss. Zum Glück gibt es die Zwillinge Pit und Anna Metternich, die den Laden unbedingt retten wollen. Dabei spielen Foxtrott und Äpfel eine nicht unbedeutende Rolle, genau wie eine Arztpraxis für Hals, Nasen und Ohren, ein Sonnenstudio und - Vanilleeis.

Gino fährt mit seinen Eltern zu Opa. Die Fahrt im Zug ist ziemlich langweilig, bis Gino eine seltsame alte Frau entdeckt. Sie strickt eine Mütze, die so grell und gelb ist, dass sie in den Augen blendet. "Die Mütze ist das Glück", behauptet die alte Frau und schenkt sie Gino. Erst glaubt er nicht, dass eine Mütze das Glück sein kann. Aber dann erlebt Gino aufregende Abenteuer mit den anderen Fahrgästen, die alle eins gemeinsam haben: Sie brauchen Glück. Und Gino mit der gelben Mütze ist tatsächlich ein Glücksbringer. Ob das bis zum Ende der Zugfahrt auch so bleibt?