Thanks to Joe Gordon, I have just been listening to a BBC Radio program about the history of fanzines. Given that is is hosted by Jarvis Cocker (he of Pulp), it naturally focuses primarily on music fanzines, but it does touch on other areas as well. In particular it goes into the history of fanzines. Trufen will be happy that it credits science fiction fandom with the invention of the fanzine, but perhaps less happy that it goes all the way back to the APAs of the 1920s (as I recall, HP Lovecraft met his wife at a fanzine convention) rather than insisting that fanzines sprang fully-formed from the SF fandom of the 1940s and 1950s. The program even manages to define “sercon”, which is pretty impressive, though it lamentably fails to mention the hectograph or Dave Langford. This being Radio 4, you can listen to the program yourself via the Listen Again service. Just go here and search for a Radio 4 program called “Zine Scene”.