From “On the Media” ’s “Divided Dial”: “Fishing in the Night”

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 Divided Dial. 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. Zine of Trans Transoceanics. Oh, this is such a cool radio with a little Last summer, I met up with a journalist and radio fan named David Gorin. These were like beautiful radios for a 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 and 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 turn it on and It's like the radio like leapt out of my hand with uh the North American service of Radio Moscow. Suddenly the world was all within reach, available to him right there in this box.

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