The Grapevine #2: Radio and its time(s) 06.06.2025

Welcome back to the Grapevine, this time focusing on radio and its times. Here, Matteo and Ieva try to come back to some of the radio beginnings to draw out its relationship with broader historical shifts as a sound reproduction and communication technology. From the early amateur tinkerers to the Frankfurt school concerns about mass media politics, 70s Italian radio activism to our COVID listening habits, we try to ask how radio listening and public - shared - historical time shaped each other. With a little help from our friends, we jump around and play with moments in radio history to suggest it’s always been a situation for an experiment.

This show originally aired on Cashmere Radio.
For more info, the tracklist or other episodes visit the show's archive at https://cashmereradio.com/shows/the-grapevine