Patrick Chaplin: Darts on the Wireless
may 2016 by kevan
"The BBC is determined to make us play games of one sort or another. Now they want us to play darts, not merely to listen to a commentary on someone else playing, but they are going to put one man in the studio to play against you!" (1938)
sport
radio
history
may 2016 by kevan
BBC Radio 4b
march 2011 by kevan
"Built upon that sinking feeling of tuning into Radio 4 and hearing people acting at you, Radio 4b plays you a string of random programmes from Radio 4's factual archive. [...] You will not hear middle-class actors tapping a teaspoon and talking about divorce."
radio
hacking
creations
march 2011 by kevan
You are listening to Los Angeles
march 2011 by kevan
Playing LAPD police radio over random ambient music from SoundCloud.
music
police
radio
sound
emergence
via:waxy
march 2011 by kevan
BBC - BBC Radio 3 Programmes - Drama on 3, The Unfortunates, by BS Johnson
october 2010 by kevan
"Graham White’s adaptation follows the book’s logic and so we have provided separate sections which, following the broadcast on 17th October, can be randomised using the carousel above."
radio
random
books
via:infovore
october 2010 by kevan
Many-band WebSDR in JO32KF
august 2010 by kevan
"On this page you can listen to and control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club ETGD at the University of Twente. In contrast to other web-controlled receivers, this receiver can be tuned by multiple users simultaneously, thanks to the use of Software-Defined Radio."
radio
technology
sound
august 2010 by kevan
Many-band WebSDR in JO32KF
august 2010 by kevan
"On this page you can listen to and control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club ETGD at the University of Twente. In contrast to other web-controlled receivers, this receiver can be tuned by multiple users simultaneously, thanks to the use of Software-Defined Radio."
radio
technology
sound
august 2010 by kevan
Ronald Knox | Radio hoax | Paul Slade - Journalist
may 2010 by kevan
1926 BBC broadcast pre-dating Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. "All over the country, listeners switched off their sets in a stunned silence and tried to digest the information that the nation’s art treasures had been looted, Parliament flattened, the Savoy Hotel bombed and a Government minister lynched in the street."
hoaxes
radio
london
via:sixtostart
may 2010 by kevan
Internet Archive: Details: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
march 2009 by kevan
The first thirty years' worth of ISIHAC, apparently in their entirety, at archive.org.
mp3s
radio
comedy
history
via:mcios
march 2009 by kevan
Numbers Station Bingo
april 2008 by kevan
A clear, steady voice reading out a stream of numbers and repeating them each time - it's obvious, in retrospect. This is a quick online version of a game that I'll be running at this week's Sandpit.
creations
games
radio
secrets
mysteries
april 2008 by kevan
Empire State Building car zap mystery
january 2008 by kevan
"Some phantom transmission appears to cause the remote keyless entry systems of scores of car owners to go haywire and stop talking to their vehicles." [...] "We get about 10 to 15 cars stuck near there every day."
transport
mysteries
technology
radio
via:hoaxes
january 2008 by kevan
Fictional radio-spaces - Touch
december 2007 by kevan
"Using inspiration from richly illustrated books on botany, zoology and natural history, Ingeborg arrived at the concept of an encyclopeadia of radio waves that contains a selection of fictional radio ‘species’."
art
radio
via:infosthetics
december 2007 by kevan
YouTube - Daydream Believers (Mitchell & Webb pilot) 1 of 3
may 2007 by kevan
Mediocre parallel-storyline sitcom pilot from 2001 about a bad sci-fi writer and his bad sci-fi characters, getting a full series on Radio 2 from this weekend.
television
radio
videos
space
writing
may 2007 by kevan
Mind Games - washingtonpost.com
january 2007 by kevan
"[They] frequently refer to themselves as TIs, which is short for Targeted Individuals, and talk about V2K -- the official military abbreviation stands for 'voice to skull' and denotes weapons that beam voices or sounds into the head."
technology
brains
surveillance
politics
radio
delusions
via:mindhacks
january 2007 by kevan
Guardian Unlimited Arts | Masters of comedy - Mitchell and Webb
august 2006 by kevan
"I think we both laugh at people falling on their arses as much as [affects pretentious accent] amusing librettos about Proust! Actually, I've never laughed at an amusing libretto about Proust and I don't think they exist. I take that back."
comedy
radio
television
interviews
august 2006 by kevan
Modern Mechanix » Spooks on the Airways
july 2006 by kevan
"The list of objects that have suddenly become radio receivers would amaze you. The record shows there have been musical furnaces, talking bedsprings and water faucets and barnyard wells that have suddenly developed conversational abilities."
radio
metal
coincidences
july 2006 by kevan
Damn Interesting » Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford
may 2006 by kevan
"In May 1963, the US Air Force launched 480 million tiny copper needles that briefly created a ring encircling the entire globe."
space
radio
technology
history
metal
via:leonard
may 2006 by kevan
BBC Programme Catalogue
april 2006 by kevan
"This experimental catalogue database holds over 900,000 entries. It is a sub-set of the data from the internal BBC database created and maintained by the BBC's Information and Archives department."
television
radio
history
april 2006 by kevan
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Spacesuit radio 'alive' in orbit
february 2006 by kevan
"An old spacesuit stuffed with a radio transmitter and old clothes is still emitting a weak signal as it orbits the globe. [...] The makeshift satellite was tossed from the ISS by crew members McArthur and Tokarev as they began a six-hour spacewalk."
space
litter
radio
clothes
february 2006 by kevan
Modern Mechanix » Pictures by Radio
january 2006 by kevan
From 1939. "An experimental facsimile network has been established as part of the Mutual Broadcasting System, and already three important stations, WGN, WOR and WLW, are transmitting on regular schedule."
radio
photos
history
technology
january 2006 by kevan
On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study
november 2005 by kevan
"The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government. [...] It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government."
radio
technology
delusions
metal
clothes
via:mindhacks
november 2005 by kevan
Memento - Transmitter
october 2005 by kevan
Hillman-style road-death memorial plaques that hijack car radios. "The transmission communicates both the name of the dead person and the number of days which have elapsed since the crash."
transport
death
ghosts
memory
history
radio
via:wmmna
october 2005 by kevan
BBC Radio Player - BBC 7 Comedy
october 2005 by kevan
Plenty of streaming audio from BBC7, including Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World, The 99p Challenge, On The Hour, Hancock.
radio
humour
october 2005 by kevan
NPR : Authors' Lowlights, Resurrected from the Dustbin
october 2005 by kevan
"The former [extract] is from Amis' novel The Information; the latter is from his 1982 masterpiece on how to play and win at the arcade game Space Invaders."
books
writing
secrets
radio
games
via:holly
october 2005 by kevan
Phonozoic - A Shouting Phonograph
august 2005 by kevan
"A phonograph that shouts so loudly that every word can be heard at a distance of ten miles has been tested at Brighton." A hundred years ago. There's a programme about it on R4 tonight.
brighton
sound
technology
radio
history
august 2005 by kevan
BBC - Radio 4 - Word 4 Word
august 2005 by kevan
New, messy R4 series, with good point-making linguistic pundits being cut short to go to 'live' phonecalls and emails from listeners. A good medium to discuss language in, though.
language
radio
august 2005 by kevan
Altair's Natural Radio Projects
july 2005 by kevan
Eerie and beautiful sound clips of naturally-occuring radio sources. "[Aurora during magnetic storms] can sound like whispery voices, or like distant singing of birds, barking animals, surf crashing on a shore, or almost anything."
sound
radio
space
science
secrets
via:mcios
july 2005 by kevan
On the Media - The Wilhelm Scream
july 2005 by kevan
"Whoever found a way to weasel it into the arrangement of a Judy Garland song - that's somebody who really pulled off the ultimate, I think, because the movie stops - and it's the only thing that's happening." Radio show with illustrative audio clips.
sound
films
death
radio
secrets
july 2005 by kevan
Guardian Unlimited | Oliver Burkeman: is Melvyn Bragg dumbing down?
june 2005 by kevan
"In Our Time began in 1998, when the newly minted peer was fired from Start The Week. [...] He migrated to Thursday mornings, which were, he recalls, 'the death slot ... you couldn't get anybody to listen. I thought, sod it: what have I got to lose?'"
interviews
radio
philosophy
june 2005 by kevan
Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? - or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis (PDF)
march 2005 by kevan
"How would we begin? First, we would secure funds to obtain a large supply of identical functioning radios in order to dissect and compare them to the one that is broken."
radio
science
genetics
filetype:pdf
media:document
march 2005 by kevan
BBC Radio 4 - Comedy - Where Did It All Go Wrong?
february 2005 by kevan
"Placebos for my hypochondria." Fifteen-minute bits of Munnery monologue - an abridged version of Buckethead, this week.
radio
humour
munnery
february 2005 by kevan
totallyradio | 26-nov-04 : Streaming DD&HSW live set
november 2004 by kevan
"...The Vessel, The Professor and Foz? from art-rockers David Devant And His Spirit Wife, who play an excellent selection of acoustic tracks from their new album ‘Power Words For Better Living’ alongside some older favourites."
devant
music
radio
november 2004 by kevan
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time - mp3 download
november 2004 by kevan
BBC's "Listen Again" feature begins to be accompanied by MP3 downloads. The future approaches.
mp3s
radio
november 2004 by kevan
Sean Lock's 15 Minutes of Misery
november 2004 by kevan
Still one of the UK's best comedians - six downloadable episodes of his 1998 Radio 4 series that became 15 Storeys High. "Oh dear, I've caused some serious emotional damage. And it's only Wednesday." Also some bits of Rich Hall.
download
humour
mp3s
radio
todo
november 2004 by kevan
Extraterrestrial DX Circa 1924: "Will We Talk to Mars in August"
october 2004 by kevan
"It was hoped that more powerful Martian transmissions would be able to bridge the gap. Thus, the task on Earth would be to intercept these transmissions. And every home with a radio was a potential detector."
history
mars
radio
space
october 2004 by kevan
BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial - The Diary of a Nobody
september 2004 by kevan
Slightly odd dramatisation of the book, with Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Pooter. Both hour-long broadcasts are streamable for a week.
books
radio
september 2004 by kevan
BBC - Radio 4 - Genius
september 2004 by kevan
Dave Gorman continues to be mildly annoying, inviting users to send him some material for a Halfbakery-style radio programme (and tour and book, presumably).
humour
radio
september 2004 by kevan
Wikipedia: Numbers stations
august 2004 by kevan
"Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin that broadcast streams of numbers, words, or phonetic sounds. It is publicly not known with certainty where their signals originate or what purpose they serve."
mysteries
radio
august 2004 by kevan
Spiricom - An Electromagnetic-Etheric Systems Approach to Communications (1982)
august 2004 by kevan
Scanned-in construction manual for a radio that can communicate with the dead. Or, you know, amplify random noise.
death
illusions
lunacy
radio
august 2004 by kevan
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Plea for analogue [radio] switch-off deadline
july 2004 by kevan
"It may take 10 or 15 years - Germany has announced a target date of 2015 - but the sooner we start, the sooner we'll finish."
apocalypse
radio
technology
july 2004 by kevan
BBC Listen Again : Routemasters (1/5) - link only good for one week
may 2004 by kevan
History of transport-related design; this week, roadsigns. The importance of a good font, the argument over upper/lower case, and an interview with Margaret Calvert, who designed many of the still-in-use symbols.
design
fonts
interviews
radio
symbols
traffic
transport
may 2004 by kevan
BBC - Radio 4 - The Bee Inspector
may 2004 by kevan
"...from keeping bees as a boy, to finding his vocation as a bee inspector."
bees
radio
may 2004 by kevan
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