Fun with Radio

{{short description|1957 children's radio handbook}}

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Fun with Radio is a book by Gilbert Davey first published in 1957 by Edmund Ward Ltd (London).

Written when radio receivers were still very expensive, and portable radios still a rarity (transistors were just being introduced), the book aimed to introduce children, mainly boys, to radio construction and possibly a career in radio or electronics. Radio construction was, in the early years of broadcasting, a very popular hobby among boys{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}. By the time he published 'Fun with Radio', Davey already had a following among readers of the Boy's Own Paper, where he was said to be the most popular contributor on practical subjects among its readers{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}, and in that same year he presented a series on BBC Television's Studio 'E' which reportedly brought him 26,000 letters within a few days of the first broadcast.*[http://www.daveysradios.org.uk/gwd.html Gilbert Davey's Radio Sets - Gilbert Davey page.]

Six editions of the book were published, the final one in 1978. Davey also wrote Fun with Short Wave Radio, Fun with Transistors, Fun with Hi-Fi, and Fun with Silicon Chips in Modern Radio (1981).*[http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1274913.Gilbert_Davey List of titles by Gilbert Davey]