Contrary attention-seeker, brunette, after short story for broadcaster (4)
'broadcaster' is the definition.
'contrary attention-seeker brunette after short story' is the wordplay.
'contrary' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'attention seeker' becomes 'oi' (exclamation used to attract attention).
'brunette' becomes 'dark' ('dark' can be similar in meaning to 'brunette').
'after short story' becomes 'lat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'oi'+'dark'+'lat'='oidarklat'
'oidarklat' reversed gives 'TALK RADIO'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for talk radio that I've seen before include "Broadcast chat" , "Programmes" , "Broadcast discussion" .)
'contrary attention-seeker brunette' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'after short story for broadcaster' is the wordplay.
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'story' becomes 'tale' ('tale' can be a synonym of 'story').
'for broadcaster' becomes 'k' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tale' with its last letter taken away is 'tal'.
'tal' put next to 'k' is 'TALK'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for talk that I've seen before include "Utter" , "Rabbit" , "Gas" , "Chatter" , "Discourse" .)