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Episode 115: A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station

Aug 21, 2022
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ANECDOTE

The Girl and the Radio

  • A young girl, around 12 or 13, is left alone at home for the first time in 1937.
  • While her parents are at the opera, she explores the radio, a forbidden device.
INSIGHT

Radio's Influence

  • Radio, historically and culturally influenced, shapes individual identities and experiences.
  • It sets the rhythm of life, love, and coping mechanisms, influenced by commercial interests.
ANECDOTE

Nate's First Love

  • When Nate DiMeo was 17, he experienced a first love.
  • Driving over the Mount Hope Bridge, the radio provided the soundtrack to this memory.
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