11 September 2026
- Talk Show
- Radiophonic
- Informative
What does it mean to be a radio amateur? A radio romantic, someone who is in it for the fun and the pleasure, for the sheer love of broadcasting? In this show, Matteo and Ieva confess, embrace, and enjoy their amateurness: by going through the radio history from a perspective of an accesssible, cheap and playful media tool; by exposing the seams of making this show; and by sharing how having hams for fingers might actually be the best way to enjoy the collective work and the collective benefit of a community radio studio. Tune in, fellow radio dilletants and dabblers, all who love to love radio – and to share that love with others.
Playlist
ReferencesAcland, Charles R., ed. Residual Media. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Birdsall, Carolyn. Radiophilia. The Study of Sound. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Douglas, Susan J. Listening in: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos’n’ Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern. 1. paperback ed. Times Books [u.a.], 1999.
Dunbar-Hester, Christina. Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism. MIT Press, 2014.
Gitelman, Lisa. Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture. The MIT Press, 2006.
Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. Calder and Boyars, 1973.
Kogawa, Tetsuo. Free Radio in Japan - The Mini FM Boom, 1993
Sounds
The Slits - Heard It Through The Grapevine, Cut, 1979 (Island Records)
Group Therapy - Arty Fact, 1982 (Kamera Records)
Monty Cantsin - Catastronics, Neoist Songs, 1983 (Yul Records)
Max Neuhaus - Public Supply I, 1966
Devo - Satisfaction, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, 1978 (Virgin Records)
Roxy Music - More Than This, Avalon, 1982 (EG)