Some forum members might be interested in this newly published book.
Here's a little from the synopsis:
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The book’s title comes from the Dutch town whose legend was emblazoned on the dials of old wireless sets, alongside a host of other European place names, Athlone included. In the opening chapter, Connelly recounts how he began hoarding vintage radios after his father’s death, prompting memories of his childhood love affair with the medium. “Each radio represented a slice of intimacy, a deeply personal instrument of comfort,” he writes.
Wireless experiments:
Such sentences appear to herald an air of reverie, but the book is more a free-flowing conversation with an overenthusiastic radio buff. Connelly crams his book with detail, from descriptions of the Dorset hotel where Guglielmo Marconi conducted his groundbreaking wireless experiments to the challenges of running Britain’s smallest station on a remote Scottish coastline...
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The book is presently only in hardback and costs £20.00. It can be bought from Foyles here:
https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/histo...-9781408889992
There's a bit more about it here:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/b...adio-1.3758882
Hope that might be of interest to someone.