http://www.vodkaster.com/Films/Sailor-et-Lula/10807
The ancestor of the Radio is the telegraph. It’s an invention of several engineers. It works using electromagnetic waves and it became the first wireless means of communication. The invention of the transistor much improved radio reception.
The first radio programmes were broadcast in England in the 1920s. In December 1921 the radio came to France.
During the Second World War the Radio was essential in the fight against the Nazis; De Gaulle used BBC Radio for his famous call to resistance.
Radio is important in our lives; we listen to it all the time. From the 40s on, it enabled young people to listen to new music: Jazz, then Rock & Roll, etc. It was for them a means of asserting their independance. There is an hommage to the liberating force of radio in David Lynch's film "Wild at heart" (cf. link).
Big old radio receivers (which our grandparents called the "wireless") have become collectors' items.
Radios old and new are indeed magic boxes which spread ideas and feelings, create communities even...
Article by Florent Bourgain
Radio was first used in navigation in 1904. The Titanic disaster could have been even worse had it not been for radio. The first daily radio station broadcasts began in 1920, in England, the United States, and in the USSR. Today, radio is still important in our lives. We can listen to it anywhere, to keep ourselves informed or to listen to music.
The following link shows what radio was like in the 20s, and it explains how radio became important very quickly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkNLZWYBsnA
Article by Melissa Ben Allal.
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