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Voices in the Wire

99% Invisible

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Radiotopians, Radio Diaries, and the Kitchen Sisters

The two most important technological innovations to my life are broadcasting and home sound recording. Radiotopians, radio diaries, and the kitchen sisters represent the best of what we can achieve in audio storytelling. The sounds that came out of Frank Conrad's garage in 1919 and 1920 are gone. Only one person still alive who actually heard what was going on in that garage is a man named Harry Mills.

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