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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: 100 Years of Radio: Part 1
Description: This episode begins shortly after 9 am on the Saturday I turned 6…for reasons that will forever remain mysterious, the present from my grandmother was a Lloyds portable transistor radio…model tr-62…made in Taiwan…built with 6 transistors…
This thing revealed a wider world to me…I grew up in a small town with three tv stations (one of which was in French) and the only radio I heard was what mom and dad listened in the kitchen or in the car…
But now that I had my own radio, I discovered that there were many, many, many oth...