(Roughly) Daily

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and development. (Aristotle)

When radio goes wrong…

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From radio broadcasts around the U.K. and the Empire: bloopers, blunders, and embarrassment– all collected at RadioFail.

One should turn one’s volume up and consider, for example, this report of nuclear proliferation

Or this breathless eyewitness account

Or (your correspondent’s favorite), this dispatch on an attack against Israel.

Much, much more at RadioFail.

As we twiddle our dials, we might draft a long and involved, dramatically-arched sentence or two, as today is the anniversary of the publication of Henry James’ first novel, Roderick Hudson (1875).

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Written by LW

November 20, 2009 at 1:01 am

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