Radio

Radio Free Boston: The Rise and Fall of WBCN

Blaring the Cream anthem “I Feel Free,” WBCN went on the air in March 1968 as an experiment in free-form rock on the fledgling FM radio band. It broadcast its final song, Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” in August 2009. In between, WBCN became the musical, cultural, and political voice of the young people of Boston …

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Car Talk: Car Tune – America’s Best Disrespectful Car Songs, Vol. 1

After “Will you guys please go away?,” Car Talk: Car Tunes are the most frequent listener requests fielded by Click and Clack, the famous Tappet brothers. Listeners searching for disrespectful, irreverent car tunes that express their true feelings about their cars need look no further.Facing another incomprehensible, costly repair? Wondering how you managed to buy the only …

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NPR: The First Forty Years

NPR was created in 1970, three years after Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Signing the act into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson said, “We in America have an appetite for excellence . . . we want most of all to enrich man’s spirit.” Today NPR produces and distributes programming that …

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Ballet For Dummies

Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique. Ballet For Dummies is for anyone who wants to enjoy all that the dance forms …

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Oscilloscopes for Radio Amateurs

Add a Scope to Your Ham ShackOscilloscopes are a useful tool in the world of electronics, allowing radio amateurs to see the signals inside their equipment. With personal computers and today’s technologies, a variety of analog, digital or hybrid scopes are available to hams for solving problems and testing new ideas in home workshops.Oscilloscopes for Radio Amateurs is …

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A Christmas Odyssey (Adventures in Odyssey)

Forget those serene manger images you see on Christmas cards. A Christmas Odyssey revisits the Christmas story as Connie and Eugene “crash” Bethlehem for Jesus’ birth. “Silent Night?” Hardly! Then zoom back to the present for a Kids’ Radio reenactment that’s too close for comfort: “Mary” goes into premature labor! There’s enough drama to go around for several …

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Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Famous People Who Returned Our Calls: Celebrity Highlights from the Oddly Informative News Quiz

Celebrity guests are put on the spot in the popular “Not My Job” segment of the Peabody award-winning NPR radio show.Each week, two million listeners tune into Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! to test their knowledge of the week’s dumbest news against some of the best and brightest―panelists including author and humorist Roy Blount Jr., author and …

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