Beaty Rubens: How listening to the radio transformed home life

Ex-BBC producer Beaty Rubens’ study of the power of radio in in 20 th century Britain is ‘full of fascinating and often poignant detail’ according to The Guardian. In 1928 a “clerk in a provincial city” wrote to the BBC to say “how much wireless means to me and thousands of the same sort. It’s a real magic carpet.” Beaty will remind us why, almost 100 years later, this still matters.
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