In this Superscience Me special edition in celebration of "World Radio Day 2020", the author Alasdair Pinkerton shares his personal story of how he came to listen and love radio. He talks about surprising, improbable facts and anecdotes he came across during his book research and how “Radio” is connected to his academic work as a geographer and reader in geopolitics. In conversation with Julia Grillmayr, he reflects current ways of consuming, but also practicing radio and explains why writing “Radio” has made him “listening to the radio the hard way”.

Alongside the interview, you will hear some quotes from “Radio” (read by Harald Pamminger), some radio philosophy and some love letters to the medium in form of field recordings.