Part One: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about Jagadish Chandra Bose, the inventor of radio, and Kenneth Rexroth, the poet involved in the creation of public radio.

Sources:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kenneth-rexroth

https://libcom.org/article/rexroth-kenneth-1905-1982

https://www.montecitojournal.net/2023/05/16/kenneth-rexroth-a-poet-of-montecito/

https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegraph

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/

https://gizmodo.com/a-magician-used-the-first-pirate-radio-station-to-troll-1681527405

https://www.wshu.org/vintage-radio/2015-12-14/so-what-did-marconi-hear

https://www.orarc.org/?p=2297

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n01/george-woodcock/elegy-for-an-anarchist

https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/8/28/kenneth-rexroth/

https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday

https://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/revkyoung.htm

https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1961.htm

https://www.literatureandarts.com/kenneth-rexroth/project-four-2h97

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