Bob Edwards Quotes

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

Radio is in my blood.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

I had the little Radio Shack crystal radio, and then my aunt Judy bought me a shortwave radio. It was amazing to me: like on these really clear nights - I lived in Ohio - I could get Texas or Florida. You felt like the world was a smaller place.

I have always loved radio as a medium.

Radio was always a fun, geeky thing to be a fan of - the history of radio, where it is, and where it's going - but it was really also a pretty easy job.

I love radio! I think radio, done right, can have more influence and have a greater connection with people and be more deeply meaningful than another medium like TV, which is on all the time and you're paying attention to it half the time.

I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

The new national campfire - radio.

Radio has no future. Wireless [telegraphy] is all very well but I'd rather send a message by a boy on a pony

I'm not a big radio listener.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Radio astronomers study radio waves from space using sensitive antennas and receivers, which give them precise information about what an astronomical object is and where it is in our night sky. And just like the signals that we send and receive here on Earth, we can convert these transmissions into sound using simple analog techniques.

I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.