I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.
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It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
Radio is immediate.
Radio is the death and life of Africa.
The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.
I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.
Radio, in a way, is preaching.
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
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