Posted: Sun Mar 27, 05 10:30 am Post subject: Down the Wires
Radio 4 Saturday 20:00 Down the Wires
Matthew Parris uncovers the remarkable story of the first sound broadcasting service to operate in Britain. Using telephone lines to pipe in the audio of theatres, opera houses and news events into people?s homes, `The Electrophone? had a major impact.
We hear rare and recently restored archive from this lost era of radio broadcasting, providing a hitherto unheard glimpse of life in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.