First and foremost, thanks for everyone who sent in a good word about the last episode! We love to hear from you - the good, the bad and definitely the strange you have to say about the series. In this next episode of Grapevine, we focus on radio and power: its infrastructures and entanglements, but also its gaps and sabotages. As we go through various examples from the 2nd World War Nazi Germany to neo-partisan Italian broadcasters, Stalin's attempts to form a uniform society over the waves to hosts using mailboxes to communicate with their listeners in revolutionary Syria, we arrive to the usual confusion/conclusion - each situation is different and there is no universal way to understand propaganda, subversion, or centralisation. However, or perhaps exactly because of t...
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