Technology: On side A of a C30 cassette Naomi Christie speaks with assistant curator of computing and communication at the Science Museum Charlotte Connelly about tape-playing devices in the collection, including an exciting, if commercially unsuccessful, precursor to magnetic tape using optics with the advertising slogan “music from a beam of light”. Turn over for side B to hear musician Beat Ratio talking about how his four-track cassette recorder works and why he chose analogue.

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Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.

Produced and presented by Naomi Christie.

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Originally broadcast on 28th April 2012

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Cassette – Discoveries

Charity shop worker and musician Peter Smith discusses surprising audio tapes which arrive in the collection. Resonance FM listens in to an anonymous journalist’s 1976 interview tape featuring a known journalist, Paul Foot, some music never intended for release and stumbles on a hoax meditation tape on the way. All crammed onto two sides of a C30 cassette.

http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/the_shemp_medit.html

http://thetramadols.tumblr.com

http://soundcloud.com/tiger-walking-downhill

http://www.organdonner.com/

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Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.

Produced and presented by Naomi Christie.

contact: cassetteradio@gmail.com.

Originally broadcast on 28th April 2012

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Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.

Produced and presented by  Naomi Christie.

Driving tapes: “Resonance 104.4FM jumps into an old nissan micra with some near-strangers to find out what cassettes are playing. Journalist Virginia Bridgewater and programmer Joe Lambourne discuss the tapes they like to play in the car ranging from 90s rave to teach yourself Spanish. Then actress Isabelle Schoelcher remembers childhood car journeys in Syria listening to Jean Michel Jarre on tape”.

Isabelle Schoelcher

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Originally broadcast on 21st April 2012

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Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.
Produced and presented by Naomi Christie.

Mix tape
“On Side B of an imagined C60 cassette tape Naomi Christie speaks with Sinead Doyle about the mix-tapes her parents used to make when they lived in Nigeria. Scott Bradbury and Michael Garrad from band Chips for the Poor return to talk about their love affair with tapes and Will Evans from Tape Club Records is once again in the studio to play some cassettes from his personal collection on the Resonance 104.4FM tape-deck.”

http://twitter.com/#/smcdoyle
http://www.chipsforthepoor.com/
http://www.tapeclubrecords.com/
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Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.

Produced and presented by Naomi Christie.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

“In the noughties the press was filled with news of the demise of the audio-cassette tape, but the obituary may have been written too soon. Bands like Chips for the Poor are still releasing music on tape, and record labels such as Tape Club Records continue to produce albums using the format. Naomi Christie uses enough Resonance 104.4FM airtime to fill Side A of a C60 tape chatting to Scott Bradbury and Michael Garrad from band Chips for the Poor about their decision to release music on cassette. And she speaks with Will Evans from Tape Club Records about how he came to help bands release their music on tape.

http://www.chipsforthepoor.com/
http://www.tapeclubrecords.com/
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Originally broadcast on 7th April 2012

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