<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">When the world got its news from shortwave radio</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Article on the golden age of shortwave broadcaster Swiss Radio International (SRI)<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">From the mid-1930s to 2004, Switzerland’s international service was<strong style="box-sizing:border-box"> Swiss Radio Internationa</strong>l (SRI). The first few decades of SRI’s existence were the heyday of shortwave – it was often the only way of getting news directly from other countries.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">What began as the Swiss Short Wave Service in 1935, would grow from broadcasting programmes in German, French, Italian and English to include other European languages and Arabic, and eventually change its name to Swiss Radio International.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The international service was considered a voice of neutrality during times of war, first during World War II, followed by the decades of the Cold War and up to and including the first war in the Gulf in the early 1990s.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the full story at<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/the-sounds-of---_when-the-world-got-its-news-from-shortwave-radio/45290852" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.swissinfo<br style="box-sizing:border-box">.ch/eng/multimedia/the-sounds-of---_when-the-world-got-its-news-from-shortwave-radio/45290852</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>