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Studio 360 – Episode 848 – Fakes and Saltbreakers – Airwave Imposters

August 14, 2013

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.

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