General Editors' Foreword; About the Contributors; Radio in Small Nations: An Introduction; In Search of Access, Localness and Sustainability: Radio in Post-devolutionary Wales; Voice of a Nation: The Development of Radio and Ireland; We Don't Talk Any More: The Strange Case of Scottish Broadcasting Devolution Policy and Radio Silence; New Zealand -- A Radio Paradise?; Radio as an Expression of Nation and Sub-nation in Laos; Training for Life: The Contribution of Radio Training to Indigenous Education and Well-being in Australia; CHOU Arabic Radio in Montreal: Finding Unity in Diversity; Regional Radio and Community: John Lair and the Renfro Valley Barn DanceCommunity Radio for the Czech Republic -- Who Cares?; Radio in the Republic of Moldova: The Struggle for Public Service Broadcasting; Radio in Wales: The Practitioner Speaks; Works Cited; Interviews; Index
Summary
A collection which considers the crucial role of radio in small nations, presenting diverse voices and diverse themes and held together by passionate and scrupulous research