Radio Man tells the story of C.O. Stanley, the unconventional Irishman who acquired Pye Radio at the beginning of the broadcasting age.

Mark Frankland read history at Cambridge and at Brown University, USA. He was a foreign correspondent for The Observer, working in the Soviet Union, the Far East, Europe and the United States. He twice won the British Press Awards prize for foreign reporting. His most recent book, Child of My Time (Chatto & Windus, 1999), won the J.R. Ackerley Prize for autobiography. His account of the collapse of communism in east Europe, The Patriots' Revolution (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990), was shortlisted for the NCR award. He is the author of five other books, including Khrushchev (Penguin Books, 1966) and The Sixth Continent (Hamish Hamilton, 1986), a study of Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev.

• Chapter 1: An Irish family


• Chapter 2: Birth of a salesman


• Chapter 3: Radio man


• Chapter 4: C.O. goes to war


• Chapter 5: The fighting factory


• Chapter 6: Boom and bureaucrats


• Chapter 7: Liberating television


• Chapter 8: West Briton


• Chapter 9: Danger years


• Chapter 10: The palace revolution


• Chapter 11: Son and father