XMTR Radio Hour #43: The Power of Radio with Tom Roe
Produced by Social Broadcasts (UK 2026)
60 min / Episode 43 of 43
This XMTR Radio Hour is a radio journey through 20th Century American Radio with radio pirate and sound art enthusiast Tom Roe. He co-founded 87X and free103point9 and the home for sound and radio art in Hudson Valley, New York State - Wave Farm. Tom is a radio artist, DJ and writer. He produces the weekly Donald Drumpf Theatre show and a regular all things radio and sound-art newsletter ’Turn on The News’. This is a personal history tour through the power of airwaves from comedy sketches to phone ins and everything in between.
Tracklist:
Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "The Sound Effects Man"
Orson Welles being interviewed the morning after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast in another great acting role.
Bill Cosby, "Chicken Heart" excerpt.
WFBR baseball radio call Bill O'Donnell, June 22, 1979.
WPLP excerpt of talk radio host Bob Lassiter.
Excerpt of interview by Tom Roe did with pirate radio operator Loni Kobres in 1997 shortly after the Federal Communications Commission came with a SWAT team and helicopters and a battering ram to shut down his radio station in Tampa, Florida.
The Donner Party, "Sickness." sung by Tom Roe
Scanner, "Turning the Dial" from "Warhol's Diary."
XMTR Radio Hour Produced by Lucia Scazzocchio
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