As the crisis developed and the various warnings were relayed to us over the camp tannoy system, I got hold of a little transistor radio.

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"Impossible Broadcasting" is Trans-Global's version of a two-way transistor radio tuned into the human experience and transmitting a sometimes unexpected soundscape to and from a brave new world.

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When Sehat was 12, he taught himself analog signal processing by taking apart his family's Philips six-transistor radio and rebuilding it one component at a time.

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As a child I had spent my evenings at home doing schoolwork, or trying to get a picture on the black and white TV, as a teenager I'd lain in my room fiddling with my yellow transistor radio, waiting for my favourite tunes.

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