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We enjoy listening to well-aged radio programs while maintaining our equally well-aged writing instruments. We were recently delighted to discover Mystery Play Internet Radio, a l0w-bandwidth site which plays selections from the owner’s personal library of 50,000 vintage radio broadcasts. The tinny, 16-bit audio stream lends an atmosphere of listening to a long-ago broadcast which became lost somewhere in deep space and has just now found its way back to Earth. Included between shows are snippets of 1940s music and commercials for extinct products and secret decoder rings.

Our only quibble is with the site’s poor interface, and the accessibility stinginess of its streaming service, live365.com. We suggest the discerning listener obtain a copy of Apple’s pleasing phonograph device iTunes and enjoy hassle-free access via Mystery Play’s link within the Talk and Spoken Word radio catagory.