Modernism Redux on Radio 3

Will Self broadcasts an imaginary archive of modernist radio and discusses the influence of modernism today.

In a secret laboratory underneath the BBC archive there is a small room containing a special machine. It’s a BBC prototype “RP-1 Ethermatic remitter”. An experimental machine designed to retrieve (“remit”) past radio signals back out of the air. Although partially successful during field trials in 1922 it was never made fully operational … until now.

Will Self has been given access to th...