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The coming of radio
That the majority of the sounds and experiences of the early years of radio are lost to us poses considerable challenges for historians. The losses include the expressions of local innovations and experimental broadcasts across global contexts that predate the establishment of organisations, often with ambitions of a national reach, such as the BBC (1922), the ABC (1923), and Radio Bangkok of Phaya Thai (1930).
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Listen In: How radio changed the home
by Beaty Rubens
Bodleian Library Publishing, $59.99 hb, 270 pp
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