From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders and connected people and places. Radio Garden allows you to listen to thousands of live radio stations worldwide by simply rotating the globe. Every green dot represents a city or town. Tap on it to tune into the radio stations in that city.
This is what the internet should be about, an amazing free resource from a group in the Netherlands. You can search directly on the names and descriptions or simply browse through an interactive world map.
If you're looking for alternative sources of news and information in these troubled times, radio is a good place to start looking. There are no blocks, filters or paywalls, just radio stations from all over the planet.
I've just listened to CMC FM in Padma's hometown Surabaya, and could almost taste the satay when I tuned into Mutiara FM on Penang Island again. Then I swivelled the globe and tuned into Radio Okerwelle in my old hometown in Braunschweig in Germany, and back to the Torres Strait where I had spent a happy year in 1977, to listen to TSIMA Radio AM 1260, before crossing over to Ellinadiko in my last overseas posting for a bit of Greek music. And how could I forget those three miserable years spent in the world's largest sandbox? - click here.
Where would you like to go? Let me guess: Radio Maria in Boroko? Start here! (click on white spot for Radio Maria or on the green spot for another Port Moresby station)
