Category Archives: history

Child! that’s no way to treat your father!

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Brian Greene

From “OUR MASTER’S VOICE ADVERTISING” by JAMES RORTY About two years ago, Dr. Lee De Forest, one of the pionieers of electronic science, and by general concession one of trie begetters of radio, encountered the lost child in his travels … Continue reading →

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Sooty 1995 – 2007

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Brian Greene
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c30 c60 c90

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Brian Greene

conor pope blogs over on the Irish Times ‘cassette death’ & I comment long live the compact cassette (CC). while curry’s may not stock it. the glut of journalist interviews recorded via CC over the decades are still on those … Continue reading →

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we need new commentators

Posted on December 31, 2006 by Brian Greene

Nearly 80 years ago, from a wooden hut that largely resembled a garden shed, the first ever commentary of a league football match was broadcast. 22/1/1927 20 years prior to that, radio got its first voice. Reginald Fessenden broadcast voice … Continue reading →

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dockers of eastwall

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Brian Greene
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