Hi, I'm Adam Howard, a senior producer for the New Yorker Radio Hour, and we wanted to share something special with you on the podcast this week.

This comes from our friends at On the Media, and it's an episode from the second season of their series The Dile.

Season one was all about the rightward shift of talk radio, and it won a Peabody Award. In season

two, reporter and host Katie Thornton travels to a lesser-known end of the radio spectrum.

Here's Katie Thornton, reporting for On the Media.

Zia turns out of Cionics.

This is such a cool radio with a little...

Last summer, I met up with a journalist and radio fan named David Goren.

These were, like, beautiful radio for a few years.

I went to his house in Brooklyn, New York, so that we could listen to the radio together.

Not any old radio, not AM or FM, nothing you can pick up in your car.

But Shortwave radio, the little-known cousin of AM&FM, with fuzzy stations that can reach insanely far distances.

David's been listening to Shortwave since he was a kid in the 70s, when his uncle gave him a radio.

And I turned it on, and it's like the radio, like, leapt out of my hand with the North American

service of Radio Moscow.

Suddenly, the world was all within reach, available to him right there in this box.

In the seventh grade, I became the expert on the next five-year plan and the Soviet Union, the economic

plan.

Today, he's part of the Library of Congress's Radio Preservation Task Force.

And together, on a sweaty Thursday afternoon last July, we sat down to hear what we could

find on the shortwave dial today.

Just like when David was a kid, we heard lots of government-run stations, like Radio Marti.

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