MetaFilter posts tagged with radio and war

War FM

hadjiboy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:28:24 -0800

The Sound of ~~Music~~ War How are you GI Joe ~ Hanoi Hannah Chris Noel trying to pronounce Anopheles Mosquito Orphan Ann "Tokyo Rose" on The Zero Hour Mildred Gillars (aka Axis Sally)

Can you hear me now?

Mitheral — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:22:02 -0800

LA6NCA's WW2 German Radio Collection Pictures and a little history on many WW2 German radios including a cute as a button spy radio and the Lichtsprechgerät 80, an incoherent light audio transceiver. Also featured are a few photo essays of the equipment in use (Enigma, Luftwaffe Signals unit redeploying). [dorian

War and Pacifica

wheelieman — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:32:49 -0800

Tomorrow for the 35th anniversary of WBAI's four and a half day radio reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace, the amazing Pacifica Radio Archives will host a 18 hour fundraiser on the Pacifica Foundation Network. (KPFK, KPFT, WPFK, and the first listener supported radio station in America, KPFA.) A hour long speical on the War and Peace broadcast will be featured on Democracy Now! Tune in for a slice of history.

Radio Games

hairyeyeball — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:20:41 -0800

War as Crime is a radio drama by Jugen Hesse, from Virtually American [via AudioTheater.com].

Avatar is the nom de guerre of an intellectual in a breakaway republic of the former Yugoslavia. His best friend, Radek, is a career soldier. Both belong to opposing ethnic groups, formerly living in peace, now at war, civil war. Radek is involved in ethnic cleansing operations against Avatar's ethnic group. ...

tpoh.org — Mon, 20 May 2002 08:45:15 -0800

Voices, Explosions, Silence: The Middle East Turmoil On (And Off) The Air. "We apologize for the discontinuation of the transmission of the Voice of Love and Peace. The offices, studios and transmission equipment were destroyed totally by Israeli forces in their last invasion of Ramallah." (from Radio Nederlands, more...)

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:35:36 -0800

Mullah Omar speaks to the people of Afghanistan and Muslims around the world. But Voice of Shariat was destroyed in the bombing. So a tape of his speech was delivered to Voice of America and the BBC World Service, and they both broadcast it.