Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.
That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.
Radio, in a way, is preaching.
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
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.
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
Radio is the death and life of Africa.