“Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!” a man’s voice announces, before going on to narrate a string of numbers in no apparent order, slowly and rhythmically. After nearly two hours, the calls of “Attention!” in ...

My interest in radio was spurred at the age of 13, when I used money from my Detroit Free Press paper route to buy a radio from the local department store; there was an unknown bonus on that Sony ...

It begins with a scratchy burst of static, followed by a man’s voice cutting through the air. “Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!” he commands in Persian. Attention. Then, slowly and rhythmically, he recites ...