Dec 16, 2019
From 1980 to 2000, I produced and hosted a communications magazine on Radio Netherlands, the Dutch International broadcasting service. We made over 1000 editions of Media Network. Just over half of those shows still survive and are now on-line. Since then I have travelled the world several times in search of the stories of what made shortwave international broadcasting such a fascinating place to be towards the end of the 20th century. I am currently exploring what’s left of the Radio Netherlands archive.
Here’s another VIDEO discovery. In 1997 I contributed to a
documentary commissioned by Radio Netherlands TV department,
released on the 70th anniversary of international broadcasting, or
so we thought at the time. It looks rather slow-paced by today’s
standards of documentary producing. But there is some rather rare
footage of Radio Tirana in Albania. If you were listening to a
shortwave radio at the end of the last century many of these names
will be familiar.
You will find it here: https://vimeo.com/378609827