Radio Is a Foreign Country feels like tuning a battered shortwave set at three in the morning and discovering the rest of the world is still awake.
It’s a listener-supported online radio station devoted to sounds that usually slip through the cracks — field recordings, ethnographic archives, forgotten broadcasts, obscure vinyl, regional cassette tapes and music from places rarely troubling the algorithms.
One minute you’re listening to Burmese psychedelic pop from the 1970s, the next to boxing music from Thailand and Cambodia, Pala’wan recordings from the Philippines, Vietnamese mountain gongs or radio transmissions captured somewhere in Southeast Asia.
It’s gloriously unpolished, curious and deeply human.
Radio made by people who still believe listening can be an act of discovery.
Switch off Spotify.
Go wandering.
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