Part One: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about Jagadish Chandra Bose, the inventor of radio, and Kenneth Rexroth, the poet involved in the creation of public radio.

Sources:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kenneth-rexroth

https://libcom.org/article/rexroth-kenneth-1905-1982

https://www.montecitojournal.net/2023/05/16/kenneth-rexroth-a-poet-of-montecito/

https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegraph

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/

https://gizmodo.com/a-magician-used-the-first-pirate-radio-station-to-troll-1681527405

https://www.wshu.org/vintage-radio/2015-12-14/so-what-did-marconi-hear

https://www.orarc.org/?p=2297

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n01/george-woodcock/elegy-for-an-anarchist

https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/8/28/kenneth-rexroth/

https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday

https://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/revkyoung.htm

https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1961.htm

https://www.literatureandarts.com/kenneth-rexroth/project-four-2h97

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