The Shortwave Desk
Broadcast · 1946 · Weekly
Foreign services
Foreign services · 1946–1974
Broadcasts
82
Cadence
Weekly
Rated
PG
Since
1946
The run
- Network
- Foreign services
- Years active
- 1946–1974
- Surviving broadcasts
- 82
- Genre
- talk
Off-air recordings of shortwave foreign services broadcasting in English: interval signals, station identifications, news bulletins and request programmes captured by listeners an ocean away. Public-domain audio from the Internet Archive.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 29 years on the air, with 29 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Same seasons
talk on the air then
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