FACTUAL
Acoustic Attic
Saturday 15 December 2007 20:00-21:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Judith Kampfner samples some American radio archives from the recordings of Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, known to their listeners as the Kitchen Sisters.
Their amazing collection, consisting of tapes and stories from ordinary people, features extraordinary eyewitness accounts of historical events and famous people as well as enchanting obsolete sounds, including Thomas Edison cracking jokes, Tennessee Williams making a recording in a penny arcade and a report on Abraham Lincoln.
Followed by News.
