30.06.09
Album Names and Cold War Games: A History of the Numbers Station

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For your uneasy listening pleasure, there’s four CDs’ worth of Shortwave Numbers Stations available free of charge via The Conet Project.

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Eight five seven nine nine nine two three six six one

I have now been listening to recordings of Numbers Stations for two and a half hours. I think it might be driving me slightly mad. Yet it’s also curiously compulsive. So much so, in fact, that I am pondering giving up all forms of writing and instead throwing what little creativity I still possess into setting up my own mysteriously unnerving radio presence somewhere in the hidden depths of Shortwave, so that I can sit in a darkened room with a single microphone and intone emotionless streams of numbers all day, every day.

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Wanna Speak With Commons People

Jarvis Cocker, complete with inadvisable beard, is going to be sitting round the Question Time table with David Dimbleby, forgotten Tory leader Iain Duncan-Smith, Labour’s Harriet Harman and, best of all, objectionable right-wing bigot Peter Hitchens. Unmissable viewing on Thursday evening, BBC1.

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