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Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds - Episode 3 - Audience

Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) Season 1 Episode 3

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In this episode of the podcast Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxembourg Story, Caroline & Zhuojia, students from the Master in Digital and Public History, explore the people who made up Radio Luxembourg’s audience and what kept them tuning in. Find out more about the station’s winning formula and how it managed to keep so close to its audience over the decades.

Selling Happiness, Shaping Minds – A Radio Luxembourg Story is a student podcast series developed in connection with the Master in Digital and Public History programme at the University of Luxembourg. It explores the power of radio, DJ culture, seductive advertising, global audiences, and the thin line between information and propaganda. 


Credits:

jingle track ( 1960s 2 house) provided by mobygratis.

Archival material taken from the CLT UFA collection at the CNA.

Thank you to John from Ireland for his story about listening to Radio Luxembourg in the 50s.

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