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June 18, 1943 : De Gaulle Launches the New Radio Brazzaville Transmitter

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Radio Metropol, The Nazis’ Secret Radio Station in Austria

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After the Liberation of Paris, the U.S. Broadcast Two Secret Fake Radio Stations

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February 1, 1944 : The Nazis Launch the World’s First All-News Radio Station in Paris

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May 1943, Three Fake Clandestine Radio Stations Try to Divide Liberated North Africa

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Radio-Révolution, the Semi-Secret Voice of the Vichy Regime

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Vichy on the Airwaves : The Story of a Broadcasting Failure

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The Amazing Story of the American Radio Station in Biarritz after the Liberation

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“Les radios” refers not to the medium in general, but to individual stations, the specific broadcasters, voices and frequencies that populated the airwaves in radio’s formative decades.

“Au temps de” means “in the time of” or “in the age of”, a phrase with a distinctly nostalgic, almost romantic flavour in French. It evokes a lost era, a world that was, rather than a simple historical period.

“La TSF” Télégraphie Sans Fil, literally “wireless telegraphy”, was the word ordinary French people used for radio throughout the 1920s, 30s and 40s, long before “la radio” became the common term. Crucially, it carries enormous emotional weight: it conjures the crackling family receiver in the living room, the amateur enthusiast building his own set from spare parts, the Resistance operator tapping out morse code in an attic. For anyone with a passion for broadcast history, TSF is not a technical term, it’s a time machine.

So the title really means something closer to: “Radio stations from the golden age of wireless”, a deliberate, affectionate nod to the era when broadcasting was still young, still miraculous, and the act of pulling a human voice out of thin air felt like nothing short of magic.

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