"In New Zealand was there ever a year to match 1935 for political sensations? Labour sweeping into office ... desperate conservatives jamming 1ZB during the election campaigning and thereby turning Scrim, the popular radio controversialist, into the hero of the hour, the idol of the man on the street. It all happened only the other day, so to speak, and there are still people who maintain with some show of logic that in fact it was Scrim who won the 1935 election for Labour ... How Colin Scrimgeour rose to influence, how politicians and newspaper publishers tried to silence him ... how in the end Labour politicians did silence him, the man who made commercial radio too outspoken for them ... While chronicling Scrim the rebel ... the book traces, with revealing irony, the development of broadcasting from a genteel amenity into the radical medium through which he challenged the Tory establishment and newspaper monopolists of only yesterday." -- Jacket