Radio Benjamin Nordengland 'The wisest book I've read

'The wisest book I've read for many years

Voices Of Nature: How And Why Animals Communicate by Nicolas Mathevon

—New York Times Book Review

Vidal Benjamin

Radio Benjamin Nordengland 'The wisest book I've readThe German critic was not only a theorist of the media he was a gifted broadcaster as well. Financial Times Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to 33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in