The Media Network Vintage Vault 2024-2025
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Media Network: A Voice from Across the Water
28 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This was actually my first attempt at making a mini radio documentary, being 23 at the time. Joined Radio Netherlands (Radio Nederland as it was then ...
Vukovar, Bangui, Congo, David's radio story continues
27 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
There was quite a bit of reaction to the interview segments I posted with David Smith, Director of Okapi Consulting. I first met David when he worked ...
AFN Europe: Frankfurt & Shape Rolled into one
27 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is a show that aired in early 1990, looking at the consequences for Forces Radio in Germany following German reunification. It turns out this is ...
Media Network now in the Lounge
26 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I am pleased to announce that if you're using a Pure Internet radio, like the Evoke, then these Vintage radio podcasts are all available through The L...
MN.16.07.1986: From Aruba, thru BBC Monitoring to Asia
21 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Turn the clock back 24 years and join us for a radio profile of what radio sounded like on the Caribbean island of Aruba. The World Cup in Mexico had ...
MN.02.04.1987: Vintage Radio with Gerald Wells Part 2
18 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is a follow-up to the visit to the Vintage Radio Wireless Museum in London. More great stories from Gerald Wells. I particularly love the stories...
MN.30.10.1986: Vintage Radio with Gerald Wells Part 1
09 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I remember visiting the UK's Vintage Radio Wireless Museum in Dulwich, South London as though it were yesterday. It's just an ordinary terraced house ...
MN.10.July.1987: Virgin Crash and Clandestine Radio
03 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition of Media Network from July 1987 we were covering the crash of the Virgin Balloon and how it was possible to monitor the rescue of Rich...
MN.19.03.1987 - Ireland Calling on Shortwave
02 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland once had its own shortwave transmitter in Athlone, long before RTE rented airtime on shortwave to broadcast programmes from its broadcast cent...
Media Network 27 June 1991: Radio Roks Russia
30 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
It is 1991 and the Russian radio monopoly is being broken by all kinds of stations, including Radio Roks. Jeff White investigates the return of Radio ...
Media Network - The Worldspace Saga
28 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This programme dates back exactly ten years ago to June 23rd 2000. What fascinates me in that how little has changed. England was exiting a football t...
MN.16.12.1999 Sydney Pacific Safari
20 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second of three programmes Jonathan Marks made in the Pacific. It follows on from the previous week's edition made in Auckland New Zealand...
MN.04.05. 2000; Millennium Mysteries Inside the Show
19 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
More mysteries solved. In May of 2000 Diana Janssen and I rounded off our memories of the Millennium by recalling some of the magic that has gone into...
Media Network in Bonaire -1989
09 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I don't deny I had a lot of fun making this programme. It is March 1989 and I realise there is nothing in the RNW archive about the great work that go...
Media Network Expedition to Lopik
05 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The date is August 13th 1981. Time to launch an expedition to the Radio Netherlands transmitter site at Lopik. It has been there since 1957 when it to...
Media Network Kootwijk Calling Batavia
02 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this programme we tell the fascinating story of the Kootwijk transmitter built in the centre of the Netherlands on the heathland. In the early 1920...
MN August 22 1991; Soviet Coup on the shortwave radio
31 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Now this is something that won't ever be repeated. If you had a shortwave radio around August 1991 then it was probably tuned to Radio Moscow, but als...
MN 24 August 1989: BBC Monitoring & Radio Caroline
31 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
BBC Monitoring has been the owner of Caversham Park House since the end of World War 2. This imposing mansion - the large building you see on the hill...
Capital Radio 604 Transkei
23 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Media Network lives on with a series of video interviews with David Smith, a lifelong shortwave enthusiast - and someone who has put it to good use in...
MN.02.09.1999: WWV Time Signal Profile
21 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This programme begins with an illustrated call for entries for the Memory of the Millennium competition (programmes and stations that no longer exist)...
Media Network Jingles Revisited 1994
19 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Eleven years after the first show on jingles (republished last week) I revisited the subject of jingle production in the 1990's, this time talking wit...
Media Network First Jingles Special 1983
14 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
We made several visits to the topic of radio jingles, how they are made and what programmers in the early 1980's thought they were for. Their use seem...
MN 24.05.1986: No, No, Nannell
09 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
We take you now to a Thursday in May 1986, when we did a lot "with" the public, ten years before e-mail was mainstream. The show starts with a report ...
Radio Bar-Kulan
07 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
For the most part, shortwave has become a medium of last resort. That's not to say there are several countries in the world where it remains a very im...
Media Network Queens Day 1987
30 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
It is April 30th as this entry is published. Its a national holiday to celebrate the Queen's Birthday, although Beatrix is not actually having a birth...
MN.09.12.1999: New Zealand North Island Safari 1999
28 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
As 1999 came to a close, Jonathan Marks was fortunate enough to attend a broadcasting conference in Australia for Radio Netherlands. He grabbed the op...
MN.07.Nov.1985. Special Operations Executive
26 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The first half of the programme is devoted to an interview with the developer of secret radio transmitters used by the agents working for the Special ...
MN 14 Nov 1985: Laser558 Spying for the DTI
24 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This show, broadcast on 14th November 1985 has an in-depth feature on the offshore station Laser 558 being escorted by a sister ship hired by the UK D...
Media Network from Bangkok December 1987
23 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Seeing that Thailand is in the news as I write this, I picked this programme broadcast from Bangkok on 4th December 1987. This includes an interview w...
Vienna Vintage Radio Vaults
22 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
You will hear contributions from Wolf Harranth in some of the Media Network archive programmes. You might like to know that I interviewed him on camer...
MN.23.05.1985 - SLBC Sri Lanka Special
21 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition, we're going back to May 23rd 1985 when I was fortunate to visit Sri Lanka for the first time, as part of a stop-over on Air Lanka to ...
MN.20.08.1992. WNYW Tribute
11 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1992, Media Network contributor Lou Josephs took me in his car to a poison-ivy infested ruin on a hill over-looking the Atlantic Ocean. It w...
Media Network 9th August 1990 - Iraq of Kuwait
11 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In the early hours of Thursday August 2nd 1990, Iraq launched an invasion on Kuwait. Initially, Iraqi forces managed to capture the studios of Kuwait ...
Media Network Number Stations Mystery 1990
28 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In the course of its life as a radio show, Media Network covered the mystery of the numbers stations in between the broadcast bands on several occasio...
Media Network Kuwait Crisis Jan 1991
23 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Media Network was one of the first international programmes of its kind to encourage and get collaboration from the audience. Listeners were encourage...
MN.10.12.1982. Broadcasting in Both Koreas
23 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
First broadcast on the 10th of December 1982, this Media Network programme looks at the broadcasts from North & South Korea aimed at each other and to...
Media Network -Search for Tokyo Rose
23 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Media Network Wartime special. Looks at Lord Haw Haw, Liberty from Argentina during Falklands War, Voice of Vietnam's Hanoi Hannah. The rest of the pr...
Media Network Wartime Deception Part-2: Soldatensender Calais
23 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is Part Two of a two-part documentary about black clandestine propaganda from the UK towards Nazi occupied Europe. The late Harold Robin explains...
Media Network : Inspiring Finnish DXpedition 1996
22 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Take your mind back to January 30th 1996. Audio on the web sounds like early wax cylinders. Mobile phones are catching on. Jonathan Marks recounts an ...
MN.17.01.1991 Lithuanian Special
02 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A few nights before the Americans went into Kuwait with Operation Desert Storm on 17th January 1991 to liberate it from the Iraqi's, Russian troops we...
MN.21.03.1991- RNI Libyan Mystery
01 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is a flashback to a Media Network in 1991 which contained an interview which solved the mystery behind the broadcasts in 1977 from Tripoli Harbou...
Media Network Wartime Deception Part-1: Research Units in the Tower
21 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is Part One of one of the most popular documentaries broadcast in the Radio Netherlands Media Network programme in 1993, looking at UK black prop...
MN.01.04.1993: MozambiqueSpecial
21 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This edition of Media Network included a fictious horse race between several international broadcasters as well as a profile of Mozambiquan radio comp...
Media Wars Propaganda Past & Present Episode 5
21 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This programme was the last in a series of five, broadcast in the summer of 1982. The episode examined the curious media situation between the Dutch a...
Media Wars Propaganda Past & Present Episode 4
21 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
An Episode of Media Network devoted to the history of Propaganda and broadcast during the summer of 1982. This episode includes an interview with the ...
MN.24.Feb.1983 Latin American Clandestine Special
21 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Early Media Network reviewing the clandestine radio stations operating in Central America, targeting Nicaragua.
MN.06.05.1982 - BFBS Falkands
21 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This Media Network was broadcast on 6th May 1982. It focussed on the Falklands "conflict", as the BBC called it. Remember it is just over a month afte...