Airwave Imposters

Studio 360

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.

Sign up for our daily newsletter

Sign up for The Top of the World, delivered to your inbox every weekday morning.