Part One: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about Jagadish Chandra Bose, the inventor of radio, and Kenneth Rexroth, the poet involved in the creation of public radio. Sources: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kenneth-rexroth https://libcom.org/article/rexroth-kenneth-1905-1982 https://www.montecitojournal.net/2023/05/16/kenneth-rexroth-a-poet-of-montecito/ https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegraph https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/ https://gizmodo.com/a-magician-used-the-first-pirate-radio-station-to-troll-1681527405 https://www.wshu.org/vintage-radio/2015-12-14/so-what-did-marconi-hear https://www.orarc.org/?p=2297 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n01/george-woodcock/elegy-for-an-anarchist https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/8/28/kenneth-rexroth/ https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday https://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/revkyoung.htm https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1961.htm https://www.literatureandarts.com/kenneth-rexroth/project-four-2h97 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.