Andy Lanset

Director of Archives, New York Public Radio

Airwave Imposters

Arts, Culture & Media

Would you ever trust a photograph to tell you whether a work of art is real? Well, the same kind of trickery can happen (and might be even easier to pull off) with sound recordings. We asked WNYC archivist Andy Lanset to burrow into the early days of radio and unearth the fakers.