Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast on the BBC World Service.

I'm Frahana Heather and today we go back to July 1979 when the Japanese electronics company

Sony launched the Walkman, the portable music player that revolutionized the way fans listen to their favorite bands.

To have music on the move doesn't seem like a big deal now, but the concept of of personal portable music didn't exist until the

Sony Walkman came along. It cost $150 and transformed the listening habits of

people around the world.

This is the latest from Japan which the makers say is the smallest stereo cassette player in the world.

They're just such lovely things.

It's this idea that the Japanese have of perfection in miniature,

and when you look at a walkman, it's so tiny,

but the pieces are all so perfect.

Walkman's are one of those things can only be appreciated when reduced to their component

parts and when you look at the care and detail that's been put into every piece that very difficult

not to love.

Tim Jarman is a writer for Hi-Fi news magazine and a collector of Sony Walkmans,

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