Seventy years on from the fateful events of 1938, when the Anglo-French policy of appeasement led to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the onset of World War Two, Battle for the Airwaves: radio and the 1938 Munich crisis by David Vaughan looks at the Munich crisis as it was played out on the radio stations of Czechoslovakia, Germany, Britain and the United States.

To mark the book's publication  and the 70^th anniversary of this event, veteran British broadcaster John Tusa will talk to award-winning journalist and broadcaster David Vaughan, about radio's key role in the run-up to the Munich Agreement and beyond. Using archival radio recordings, from Nazi sloganeering and Chamberlain's soundbites ("peace in our time") to measured Czechoslovak pleas and live reports from correspondents, they will illustrate how radio brought the threat of war directly into the homes of listeners and made the crisis immediate while at the same time arguing  that the 1938 battle for the airwaves was one of the first global media events, marking the beginning of the age of the modern electronic media.