Seán Street is Emeritus Professor of Radio at Bournemouth University. He is author of The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound (Routledge, 2012). He is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 and a poet, with nine published collections. He lives in Liverpool, UK.

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio

1. Introduction: Echoes and Shadows 2. Tell Me a Story 3. Radio: Feeding the Imagination 4. 'Father of the Man': Radio, Audio and Youth 5. Music Memory: Music in the Moment 6. Ourselves as History: An Encyclopaedia of Sounds 7. Walls Have Voices 8. Saving the Sound, Spreading the Word 9. Holding on to Sounds 10. The Future Sound of Memory Appendix: Radio in the Context of Memory