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Based on a major BBC Radio 4 series, David Hendy explores the role of sound - and of listening - in 100,000 years of human history.

About the Author

David Hendy is 'Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Sussex. His books include Life on Air: a History of Radio Four, which won the 2008 History Today-Longman Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Orwell Prize.

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A social history of sound from the Paleolithic to the present - David Hendy reconstructs the acoustic environments of our ancestors and contemporaries in words, conjuring them to life for the mind's ear. Brilliant and thought-provoking - curl up somewhere noisy and enjoy!
*Nigel Warburton*

Praise for David Hendy's previous books -

'An unalloyed treat
*The Times*

Endlessly engrossing
*Guardian*

A magnificent chronicle
*THES*

Praise for David Hendy's Life on Air: a History of Radio Four:

'Academically rigorous, but eminently readable
*Daily Mail*

Eminently readable, utterly reliable, on occasions painfully frank, it is a joy to read and a masterly lesson in how to translate bare fact into compelling narrative
*Daily Telegraph*

Authoritative... independent-minded and, above all, highly readable
*History Today*

Masterly ... amusing ... exhilarating
*Times Literary Supplement*

A historian who makes brilliant use of interviews, memoirs, old recordings and so on... The result is a long and scholarly book, but one filled with riveting detail and anecdote, constantly illuminating about the peculiar character of Britain's best-loved and most criticised radio network. It also provides a wonderful case study of the dynamics of anxiety produced by social change... endlessly engrossing
*Guardian*

An easy enthusiasm that is hard to resist... provides both juicy gossip and grand anthropology
*Daily Telegraph*

A nugget of surprising and entertaining fact on every page
*Time Out*

Fascinating. Noise is something to shout about.
*Emily Cockayne, author of Hubbub*

Hendy's absorbing argument is persuasive
*Financial Times*

Hendy's radiant and lyrical account of an otherwise elusive subject attests to his grasp of the history of sound and an amazing ability to weave vast and complex themes to a cohesive, accessible page-turner. Noise: A History of Sound and Listening is a thoroughly exhilarating encounter.
*Bernie Krause, author of 'The Great Animal Orchestra'*

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