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The Joke Show is the most popular annual broadcast from A Prairie Home Companion. A Few More Pretty Good Jokes features all the jokes from the most recent shows which aired in April 2000 and 2002 (both were done in New York). These recordings are a welcome supplement to the highly successful previous Joke Book, Tape, and CD.

Two award-winning major market producers present the definitive how-to guide for producing a radio show, explaining every duty a radio producer is expected to perform. With refreshing honesty and the humorous flair of professional radio comedy writers, the authors reveal how to get one's professional foot in the radio door, book celebrity guests, craft great interviews, come up with ideas, create great phone segments, write and pitch material, and cope with the pressure that accompanies producing a show in progress.

You can trust Hilliard's WRITING FOR TELEVISION, RADIO, AND NEW MEDIA to provide you with thorough and up-to-date coverage of the principles, techniques, and approaches of writing for television, radio, and the Internet, including writing for a variety of formats such as interviews, sports, advertisements, scripts, and news. Hilliard's vast coverage of content, excellent organization, attention to form, and good examples ensure that you will be well-trained for a career in WRITING FOR TELEVISION, RADIO, AND NEW MEDIA.

Since the earliest days of the music business more than a century ago, record labels have come and gone, been taken over or merged. Some have been owned by retailers, DJs, agents, and managers, others by individual artists or groups or vast media and electronics conglomerates. For many fans, a symphony or song on the "right" label is almost as important as the artist recording it. From classical to soul, jazz to rock, folk to rap, every record label has a story to tell. Those stories are collected here - along with details about the labels' founders, artists, and corporate backers - providing a fascinating insight into one of the most important aspects of the history of popular music. Covering every major record label from A&M Records to Motown to ZTT, this historical guide is illustrated in full color.

A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air.

Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has interviewed many of our most celebrated writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists. Her show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, is one of National Public Radio's most popular programs. More than four million people tune in to the show, which is broadcast on over 400 NPR stations across the country.

Gross is known for her thoughtful, probing interviewing style. In her trusted company, even the most reticent guest relaxes and opens up. But Gross doesn't shy away from controversy, and her questions can be tough -- too tough, apparently, for Bill O'Reilly, who abruptly terminated his conversation with her. Her interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss, which is included in the book, prompted Entertainment Weekly to name Simmons its male "Crackpot of the Year."

For All I Did Was Ask, Gross has selected more than three dozen of her best interviews -- ones of lasting relevance that are as lively on the page as they were on the air. Each is preceded by a personal introduction in which she reveals why a particular guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her questions. And in an introductory chapter, the normally self-effacing Gross does something you're unlikely ever to hear her do on Fresh Air -- she discusses her approach to interviewing, revealing a thing or two about herself in the bargain.

The collection focuses on luminaries from the art and entertainment world, including actors, comedians, writers, visual artists, and musicians, such as:

--Conan O'Brien
--Chris Rock
--Michael Caine
--Dennis Hopper
--Dustin Hoffman
--Jodie Foster
--John Updike
--Mary Karr
--Mario Puzo
--Nick Hornby
--Chuck Close
--Eric Clapton
--George Clinton
--Sonny Rollins
--Samuel L. Jackson
--Johnny Cash
--Isabella Rossellini
--Divine
--Uta Hagen
--Carol Shields

Features Wally Ballou's Man on the Street interview; Biff Burns in the Sports Room; Garish Summit; Dining Out with Bob & Ray and many, many other Bob & Ray gems. Recorded before a live audience. 4 cassettes, 4 hours.

Features Wally Ballou's Man on the Street interview; Biff Burns in the Sports Room; Garish Summit; Dining Out with Bob & Ray and many, many other Bob & Ray gems. Recorded before a live audience. 4 cassettes, 4 hours.

Contains 66 Bob & Ray selections, including 23 Mary Backstayge episodes in which Mary, Harry, Calvin and Pop Beloved wander from Yokohama to Ogunquit, Maine for the premiere of "Westchester Furioso." Also, Wally Ballou aboard the Bob & Ray Trophy Train; Blimmix; Squad Car 119; The Gathering Dusk; Word Wizard Elmer Stapley; Mr. Science; Charles the Poet; Wing Po; Do-It-Yourselfer Fred Falvy; Elmer W. Litzinger, Spy; and many, many more…