Still Ga-Ga for Radio

Sometimes - especially during the current radio times - it is nice to be reminded of what radio could be - or still is in other parts of the world. In a piece for Saturday's Telegraph BBC broadcaster Libby Purves celebrates the 'invisible' medium.

Television tends to steal your hours while radio doubles them. We are all tied to lonely physical drudgeries: driving, housework, cooking, dressing, searching for lost socks. Yet all the time the humble apparatus fills our mind with stories, ideas, sounds and jokes and meditations. And the hours need not feel wasted or lonely after all.

While I have to admit this is a very idealistic view of radio it nicely shows the potential radio - or audio entertainment for that matter - still has.