[Swprograms] Story of KDKA & another Marconi TA DX docu

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Re:Sound, WBEZ, 1900 UT Saturday; webcast or on demand.

January 20, 2007 (#40)- The Radio Show
Originally broadcast February 25, 2006 

Conrad's Garage 
Joe Richman- Producer, Radio Diaries 

Before there were ipods,  before there were walkmans,  before there were
transistors, stereos or even radio stations, there was Conrad?s garage.  Thomas
Edison said ?To invent you need a good imagination?and a pile of junk.? Frank
Conrad , a Westinghouse engineer had both. And in 1919 he unknowingly started a
revolutionary industry. Producer Joe Richman tells this unusual story. (Lost
and Found Sound, 2001) 

Whispers in the Air 
Chris Brookes- Producer, Battery Radio 

The are so many things going through the airwaves at any given time ? cell
phones, televisions, radio, satellite signals, who knows what is  passing
through you everytime you step outside your door.  But a hundred years ago, the
air was strangely empty.  Then, on Dec 12, 1901, as the legend goes, on a hill
in Newfoundland, Marconi received the first trans-atlantic wireless signal, 
pretty much enabling every single communication device  that has been with us
ever since.  Canadian producer Chris Brooks lives at the base of that same hill
and decided to find out exactly what happened there a century ago. (Battery
Radio, 2001) 

[and more...]

(via Glenn Hauser)



 
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