"A hundred years ago on January 1, the Irish Free State broadcasting service started under the title 2RN - an anniversary marked by Bowman: Sunday: 8.30 (RTÉ 1, Sundays),on which the host used material from a programme that he himself had made on this subject, 50 years ago."
"It must be the broadcasting equivalent of an out-of-body experience to find yourself in the archives from half a century ago - but Bowman merely dropped it discreetly into the background as he described the even stranger beginnings of what they called "wireless broadcasting" in Ireland."
On January 1 a hundred years ago, the Irish Free State broadcasting service began under the title 2RN. RTÉ marked the centenary with a Sunday programme that incorporated material from a programme produced fifty years earlier. The broadcast blended archival recordings with narrative about the early, peculiar beginnings of wireless broadcasting in Ireland. Encountering half-century-old archives felt like a broadcasting equivalent of an out-of-body experience, yet the historical recordings were placed discreetly in the background while the account moved through the stranger origins of national wireless service.
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