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Spin a globe covered in green dots and drop the needle on a live local station anywhere on Earth. The buffering is part of the charm.
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Radio Garden sits in World Radio under Wander, filed as instant.
About this category: Radio stations plotted on a map or sorted by decade. The fastest way to feel like you are somewhere else without leaving the tab.
Yes. Radio Garden is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Radio Garden without signing up for anything.
Yes. Radio Garden works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It does need sound, so bring headphones.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Human-curated and listener-supported, mixed like an album rather than a playlist, at an absurdly high bitrate if you want it.
A tidy directory of tens of thousands of broadcast stations by country, genre and topic, with nothing to sign up for before you press play.
Pick a country and a decade on a world map and hear what people there were actually listening to, curated by humans since 1900.
Listener-funded, advert-free channels out of San Francisco, Drone Zone and Groove Salad among them, going since the dial-up era.
One button, one random inhabited spot on Earth in Street View, most of them somewhere nobody would ever have chosen to look.
Sandwiches rotating slowly on a loop, under a tagline that reads simply, and accurately, that's it.
Three colour fields flipping between red, green and blue as you move, a fixture of the useless-web canon and a strobe risk.
Run through a tunnel in space where the walls become the floor whenever you turn. An entire generation played this instead of maths.
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