Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller | Esther Leslie & Stuart Jeffries
The Verso Podcast
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The Liberatory Possibilities of Radio
This chapter explores the experimental interests and liberatory potential of radio during the Weimar era, discussing Walter Benjamin's radio broadcasts and his fear of middlebrow culture. It also mentions Ernst Schoen's struggle to find a role at the BBC and the frustration at the lack of recordings of Benjamin's performances.
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