Three shows on the radio pioneer, composer, poet and anti-fascist Ernst Schoen (1894–1960) – drawing on the book by co-presenters Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century (Goldsmith Sonic Series, 2023), a project that took early form on MayDay Radio.

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The first of three shows explores childhood, that of Schoen and his generation, of us and of radio.

You can read the script here.

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Through some time and space travel, the second show explores the radio magazines of the 1920s. Join us to flick through some listings in Berlin's Staatsbibliothek.

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The third show explores themes of exile and estrangement through the fervid dreams of a low-level BBC employee in the immediate post-war years, with special guest Owen Hatherley, author of the recently published The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century.

Thanks to everyone at Resonance for helping us put these out: Peter, Michael, Lee, among others. Thanks also to Matilda Jones for helping us teleport to the Stabi.