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