{"id":52188,"date":"2022-03-14T06:27:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T10:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52188"},"modified":"2022-03-14T06:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T10:27:59","slug":"today-explained-podcast-episode-focuses-on-the-power-of-shortwave-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/today-explained-podcast-episode-focuses-on-the-power-of-shortwave-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, Explained: Podcast episode focuses on the power of shortwave radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to our friends at Radio Survivor<\/a> who share this most recent episode of Today, Explained with Noel King:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The BBC is bringing back shortwave radio broadcasts to counter censorship and disinformation in Russia and Ukraine. Professor D.W. Stupples explains.<\/p>\n

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.<\/p>\n

Transcript at vox.com\/todayexplained<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/pdst.fm\/e\/chtbl.com\/track\/524GE\/traffic.megaphone.fm\/VMP3207178626.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to visit Today, Explained<\/em> at Vox.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to listen to this episode on Megaphone.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to our friends at Radio Survivor who share this most recent episode of Today, Explained with Noel King: The BBC is bringing back shortwave radio broadcasts to counter censorship and disinformation in Russia and Ukraine. Professor D.W. Stupples explains. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[3,288,43,1167],"tags":[9716,9688,4082,9717,2615,4655],"class_list":["post-52188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-d-w-stupples","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-today-explained-vox","tag-ukraine","tag-why-shortwave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dzK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52357,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/wireless-flirt-episode-explores-shortwave-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":52188,"position":0},"title":"Wireless Flirt episode explores shortwave radio","author":"Thomas","date":"April 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very honored to have been interviewed by John Walsh who produces the excellent program Wireless on Flirt FM in Ireland. 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