{"id":17848,"date":"2016-03-20T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T11:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17848"},"modified":"2016-03-20T07:57:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T11:57:59","slug":"radio-4-doc-learning-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/radio-4-doc-learning-to-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 4 Doc: Learning to Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12446\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"Atwater-Kent-Dial\" width=\"584\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Atwater-Kent-Dial.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Looking back through my notes this morning, I re-discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04d4sdm\" target=\"_blank\">this excellent documentary<\/a> on the early days of radio listening; how radio changed the way we interacted with music and how we interacted with our radios.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04d4sdm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio 4<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>As broadcasting took the world by storm in the 1920s, the radio quickly became the hub of many households. Entire families would huddle around their receiver, each person individually connected with their own headset.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>But for this first generation of radio listeners, the flexible styles of listening that we habitually employ today were by no means innate &#8211; many sat silent and fully attentive, listening just as they would in a concert hall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Historian Dominic Sandbrook charts how a new, more informal style of listening gradually evolved through the 1920s and 30s, by delving into the diaries of the Austrian musician Heinrich Schenker.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Schenker began to record what he heard on the radio within days of the inaugural broadcast from Austria&#8217;s first official station, Radio Wien. This rare and fascinating record, which spans just over a decade, offers tangible evidence of how new approaches to listening emerged over these formative years. We&#8217;ll follow Schenker&#8217;s journey as the radio shifts from being something that demanded his rapt attention, to eventually becoming an integrated part of his domestic life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b04d4sdm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to listen to the full documentary on Radio 4.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back through my notes this morning, I re-discovered this excellent documentary on the early days of radio listening; how radio changed the way we interacted with music and how we interacted with our radios. (Source: BBC Radio 4) As broadcasting took the world by storm in the 1920s, the radio quickly became the hub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[508,442,3,288],"tags":[104,1347,1480],"class_list":["post-17848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-music","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-radio-listening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4DS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66022,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-the-bbc-emergency-radio-service-may-4-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":17848,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of the BBC Emergency Radio Service (May 4, 2026)","author":"Thomas","date":"May 6, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares the following\u00a0illustrated radio listening report of a recent BBC ERS broadcast. 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