AND THE WORLD LISTENED

The Story of Captain Leonard Frank Plugge and the International Broadcasting Company.

Lenny Plugge founded the International Broadcasting Company in 1930.
Its first location was at 11 Hallam Street in central London, practically next door to where the BBC's new headquarters,
Broadcasting House was under construction. Plugge was not short of cheek and it was that aspect of him that contributed
so much to his success and to the development of English language commercial radio beamed
from continental stations like Radios Paris, Post Parisien, and especially Radio Normandy.
Plugge’s broadcasting ventures made him a millionaire, but his personal life was less successful.
This book tells the full story: his tours through Europe in the 1920s in cars equipped
with huge radios and transmitters fitted with frame aerials, the development of the IBC,
his ten years as an MP, his marriage break-down and family tragedies of his later life.
Some of the famous names involved in the story are Jacqueline Bouvier (later Kennedy),
Lady Docker, Annigoni, Sarah Churchill, Noel Coward, Hugh Gaitskill, Mick Jagger, April Ashley and Michael X.
The 215 page book is complete with many illustrations.

Softcover

£12.95 UK

£15.95 EUROPE

Hardcover

£22.50 UK

£25.50 Europe

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