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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20021013
Author:Nicholas Lezard

The main reason I started listening to the radio intently, in the early 1970s, was in order to monitor the airwaves on the off-chance of hearing a Beatles track, few of whose records I possessed at the time. Narrow-cast broadcasting was in its infancy in those days, so I had to put up with an awful lot of soft rock, late-night phone-ins on something called LBC, satirical shows like Weekending and Lord knows how many songs by the Osmonds; and so, over the years, I developed a passionate desire to criticise the medium and expose the charlatans behind it - and here I am, 30 years later, doing ...

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