Every now and then, DU gets a thread about Radio Garden.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

You can look it up. A few people here have posted about it. Here's a thread from a year ago:

Wed Feb 10, 2021: Do y'all know about Radio Garden? Listen to local radio from all over the world!

It was even on the Twitter, that computer station all the kids listen to.

This is the COOLEST. A Google Earth-type representation of the planet. Every green dot is a radio station. Click any dot to listen in. It’s like cultural teleportation. You could spend hours with this thing… http://radio.garden

Link to tweet

i wonder if that includes Kyiv.

http://radio.garden/

Why, it certainly does.

http://radio.garden/listen/dj-fm-96-8/Nx5BIlbs, one of 84 stations you can listen to in Kyiv.

Edited: for some reason, the first station I linked to defaulted to C-Span, but you can turn the globe until you find Kyiv. It's a biggest city this side of Minsk; you'll find it right away.

Edited again: every station I tune to is running the same broadcast.

Apple, Android: there's an app for this.

[dameatball]

1. Cool. I'll give it a try. I learned about Radio Garden here on DU last year. Thank you to whoever

was the OP, although there may have been several who mentioned it along the way.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. JohnnyRingo had a thread about it in Music Appreciation not too long ago.

It first seemed to show up here in February 2021 {edited: not 2014}.

I'm not the first one to mention here at all. I learned about it from those earlier posts.

Here's Kharkiv: http://radio.garden/visit/kharkiv/aAPbrIta

http://radio.garden/listen/true-black-metal-radio/7J1BGF3N

and two others.

[dameatball]

3. Yes, I think it was the JohnnyRingo post where I heard of it. I wasn't here in 2014. Good stuff.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Here's one from three weeks ago:

Edited: the threads about Radio Garden go back to 2021, not 2014. My mistake.

Sun Feb 6, 2022: This may be old news to many here, but it's worth mentioning.

Most radio stations broadcast over the internet as well as the airwaves these days, for better or worse. There are many stations that broadcast only over the internet as well.

Radio Garden is a clearing house for all the radio on the web. It's based in the Netherlands and is 100% free with no downloads or apps. One simply navigates the globe and click on one of about 33,000 green dots. Alternatively, there are several search functions.

I found some stations around London and South Africa I enjoy, but one that took a long time to discover. "Handcrafted Radio" in Lansing Michigan reminds me of an old station I listened to in the '70s and '80s before deregulation ruined FM radio, but with no talk, no commercials. They play deep album cuts of classic rock. They just played Highway Star, John Lennon and Foreigner.

It turns out radio only sucks in the US.

I tuned in Handcrafted Radio for you here, but feel free to explore your own world, search international stations, and mark favorites:

http://radio.garden/listen/handcrafted-radio/fMNsEHbE

Thank you for listening, I hope you enjoy background music for the rest of the day.

Or, from 2021:

Mon Jan 4, 202!: Who wants to listen to any radio station in the world?

Well, any radio station that also broadcasts over the internet, but you'd be surprised how many that is.
I found great stations in England and South Africa where English speaking DJs play classic rock that doesn't suck.

It's like Google maps used to navigate the globe to find your station. It's no surprise that corporate interests may have killed FM here, but not elsewhere:

http://radio.garden/visit/farnborough/vu5rHpnB

For those with bluetooth it's like having ten thousand preset buttons on your radio. You could listen to rock from Weybridge England on the way to work and tune a Paris station for global beat on the way home.

[calguy]

12. I discovered Handcrafted Radio when that link was posted a while back

It's now my favorite background music when I work at my fly tying bench.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. This is running on an endless loop from Blits-FM 103.3, a station in Bila Tserkva.

http://radio.garden/visit/bila-tserkva/foKH7i5I

[MLAA]

6. Okay, so first I went to Greece, then Ukraine, then Paris. This is amazing. Thank you!

[Kali]

7. I think your link might be one that takes the listener to the closest available station?

it took me to the station in the nearest town (a horrible country/old shitty rock format)

[MLAA]

8. Yes, then just click on any green dot around the world and away you go!

[Kali]

10. well I meant the second link that was supposed to go to a particular station

first heard of radio garden a while back from nolabear (maybe on face book, not sure now)


edit...d'oh that was the post OP linked to

[MLAA]

13. It's addictive! Kinda of like when I watch one Graham Norton YouTube next thing I know

an hour has passed 🙂

[Kali]

14. that is the whole damn internet for me

or even just DU!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. I don't know what that was about. I had to turn the Earth by hand to get to Kyiv.

And boy, are my arms tired.

[Kali]

11. ...

[patricia92243]

15. Thanks for this! Sent a copy to hubby who is a big radio fan.

[EarthFirst]

16. I found myself searching immediately for Ukraine...

I choose a station in Fastiv; outside Kiyv.

It’s an air raid siren on repeat; same with its neighboring city Bila Tservka.

Bone chilling.

http://radio.garden/listen/blc-fm/1VUyk8es

[Captain Zero]

17. I listen to a station on the Greek Island, Corfu.

And a jazz station from St. Croix, Indiana.


Nice to hear different things. Fun way to do it.

[GoCubsGo]

18. I love that app!

I usually gravitate toward the Canadian stations, First Nations, in particular, but I'll have to check out the Ukrainian and other European channels.