World Radio Day special!
February 13th, 2021 | by aobaoill |It’s World Radio Day – an annual celebration of radio, established by UNESCO and the UN in 2011. 13th February was chosen because it’s the day in 1946 – 75 years ago today – that the UN set up its Department of Public Information, and UN Radio.
Flirt FM – our home station – is marking the occasion with activities online and on-air (the only Irish body to show up on the global map of official WRD activities!). We’re excited to have a special episode of A Critical Ear to share with you today.
On today’s show, we have:
- Students from third class in Galway Educate Together National School (GETNS)
- Our regular correspondents Tadhg and Noah
- Excerpts from archival materials from the Internet Archive, including from the 1937 report on the Hindenburg disaster, the 1938 Orson Welles/Mercury Theatre production of War of the Worlds, and a 1940 CBS broadcast from wartime London by Edward R. Murrow.
- Materials from the Alternative Audio Archive curated by our producer Andrew Ó Baoill, to be housed at NUIG library, including early Flirt FM interviews from the 1995 divorce referendum count, and from Margaretta D’Arcy‘s Radio Pirate Woman.
The show is now archived on the Internet Archive, and available for syndication from the A-Infos Radio Project.