Tag: radio
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Lie Spy
I listen daily to the serials broadcast from the old-timers station ” Capitol Radio ” here in Perth. Mostly they are 1950’s products dredged up from the archives of the Australian broadcasting networks of the time. I am amazed that they have survived, and wonder whether they are tape recordings or vinyl records. Many are…
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Late Night Music
Late night music has a charm that surpasses that heard throughout the day…particularly if it can be enjoyed in solitude. That condition is hard to achieve outside Sing Sing. Certainly around here the house can resemble a circus – Ringling Brothers one day and Piccadilly the next. Silence may reign but generally it is after…
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Community Service Announcement
And boy, are we ever going to serve you. We’re going to serve you right… I listen to the old-folks radio station of an evening…it has music and news and the occasional embarrassing silence when the announcer is out of the studio booth for a pee and the record finishes. All of the announcers are…
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The Holes In Your Tirol
I listen half-heartedly enough to my radio as I work. The shows are fine, but my mind is on my workbench. It does jolt up when It hears something unusual. Thursday I learned that there is a society that concerns itself with Austriaporosis. Yes, exactly that. I heard it precisely enough from the volunteer announcer…
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Look Up The Service History
This is a good idea on a number of levels. Service histories come in all sorts; military, scholastic, vehicle, appliance, etc. I even met a person who kept a service history for their clothing – to see when it needed cleaning or repair. That might have been a little obsessive, but all the other sorts…
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The Razzinator
That was my father’s slang term for a radio…or wireless, as it is known in Australia. We have had them as long as I can remember. The first bakelite tube kitchen set is hazy in my memory but I do remember the large Motorola radiogram that followed us from house to house in Canada. It…
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Old Folks Radio
I think I am officially old folks now. It has been quite journey through snot-nose kid, callow youth, and middle aged slob. I feel a sense of relief that I’ve fetched up onto the shore of early old age with all of my teeth and most of my mind. I have no illusions about the…
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Renowned For His Superior Skills…
I listen to the Old People’s Radio a lot – having qualified for the privilege by years of breathing in and out. The music is wonderful or woeful, depending upon whether you liked it the first time you heard it in 1959. The advertisements are simple and charming – but can be a surprising measure…
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Aluminium Pan Alley
I listen to the old time radio station here in Perth – oddly enough broadcast from a nearby suburb. Apart from the melodrama serial and the advertisements for used cars and dental implants, most of the rest of it is devoted to music from the 40’s to the 80’s. Many of the singers are definitely…
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Shopping For A War – Part Four – Sex
Are you in favour of sex? Do you have one? Do you have several? Are any of them for sale? Do you give receipts? The topic of sex, however it is raised, is bound to cause attention, ire, and desire to lecture on the part of nearly every reader. From those who refuse to consider…
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