Radio Benjamin

From 1927 to 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and presented more than eighty broadcasts over the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers, for the first time in English, the surviving transcripts. This eclectic collection shows the range of Benjamin's thinking and includes stories for young and old, plays, readings, book reviews, a novella, and discussions of topics ranging from finding a job to the architecture of Berlin to an account of the railway disaster at the Firth of Tay. Delightful and incisive, this is Walter Benjamin directing his sophisticated thinking to a mass audience.

Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed June 19, 2014).

"Translations in this volume are based on Benjamin's radio typescripts as published and edited in the Gesammelte Schriften."

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts; Walter Benjamin on the Radio: An Introduction; Section I: Youth Hour: Radio Stories for Children; Chapter 1: Berlin Dialect; Chapter 2: Street Trade and Markets in Old and New Berlin; Chapter 3: Berlin Puppet Theater; Chapter 4: Demonic Berlin; Chapter 5: Berlin Guttersnipe; Chapter 6: Berlin Toy Tour I; Chapter 7: Berlin Toy Tour II; Chapter 8: Borsig; Chapter 9: The Rental Barracks; Chapter 10: Theodor Hosemann; Chapter 11: A Visit to the Brass Works; Chapter 12: Fontaneâ#x80;#x99;s Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg

Chapter 13: Witch TrialsChapter 14: Robber Bands in Old Germany; Chapter 15: The Gypsies; Chapter 16: The Bastille, the Old French State Prison; Chapter 17: Kaspar Hauser; Chapter l8: Dr. Faust; Chapter 19: Cagliostro; Chapter 20: Postage Stamp Swindles; Chapter 21: The Bootleggers; Chapter 22: Naples; Chapter 23: The Fall of Herculaneum and Pompeii; Chapter 24: The Lisbon Earthquake; Chapter 25: Theater Fire in Canton; Chapter 26: The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay; Chapter 27: The Mississippi Flood of 1927; Chapter 28: True Dog Stories; Chapter 29: A Crazy Mixed-Up Day

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