21 JULY 1979, page 20

Backroom Boy

David Cardiff A World in Your Ear: The Broadcasting of an Era 1923-64 Robert Wood (Macmillan £6.95) The curious thing about the autobiographies of BBC men of the Reithian period......

T&g Man

Peter Paterson The Awkward Warrior: Frank Cousins: His Life and Times Geoffrey Goodman (Davis-Poynter £15) No figure in our society is so forlorn and neglected as an ex-trade......