Currently on Radio 4's Archive Hour (well, half hour if you tune in now):
"Since 1949 Pacifica Radio has been a unique voice of dissent, an arena for protest and a space to imagine an alternative American dream. Raided by the FBI, blown up by the Klu Klux Klan and frequently torn apart by internal troubles, Pacifica has both reported and reacted to the major social upheavals of American life and liberty. Mike Marqusee pieces together an epic archival history of radical American radio."
This is worth listening to if only for the blokes statement to the HUAC witchhunt as to why he will not 'cooperate' with them. Made me feel ten foot tall, anyway. The rest of it;s fairly gripping, too.
As with all the beeb, you can listen again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/archivehour.shtml
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