[Swprograms] Short Wave Numbers Documentary (CBC Radio One)

["Eric Floden" <ericf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

greetings, 

this item was on the Current today, and I only heard bits of it.  I am 
hoping it will be one of the items they play back in the 8 to 9 pm slot 
(best of the Current & Sounds Like Canada), local time, on CBC Radio One. 

ef
Vancouver 


Short Wave Numbers Documentary 

For the rest of the program, we're going to take a bit of a break from 
talking about the tsunami disaster. But we do want to mention the fact that 
in some parts of Southeast Asia, the only information about survivors is 
coming over short wave radios. 

Short wave radio fans are a passionate lot. So weâre going to venture a 
guess that some of you might have come across the strange subject of our 
documentary. It's about those ghostly lists of numbers that you might have 
heard on your short wave. They broadcast every once in a while, and they're 
read in different languages by an assortment of oddly dispassionate voices. 

These lists of numbers have found their way into songs and movies such as 
Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky. And amongst short wave radios fans these 
numbers are attracting a cult following, and generating a few conspiracy 
theories. They've also become an obsession for a man named Akin Fernandez. 
Matt Cowan is a freelance journalist and he has produced a documentary about 
the numbers and the man. He joined us from our London, England studio. 



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