The BBC and Yellowstone National Park have both recently released extensive archives of sound effects into the public domain; you never know when you might have occasion to know the exact sound of a grizzly crunching bison bones, the klaxon of a Romanian trolleybus, a shot from an 1870 17-bore twin-barrel shotgun, or the moaning of a frozen lake as ( Read more... )

A friend1 is writing K-Pop RPF2 and requires the codes and speak they use in Seoul in the Police force when communicating by radio. As an example, in the London Met, a white male suspect would be an IC1, and in New York, a 10-64 Q would mean a foul odour odor making things unpleasant in a street ( Read more... )

My story is set on a private island in the UK in the early 1930's. There is a mix of the latest/greatest technology (for the bosses) and run-of-the-mill/slightly out of date technology (for the support staff ( Read more... )

Time period: modern day ( Read more... )

Pointed out by curiouswombat, Genome is an archive of BBC listings from the Radio Times magazine (BBC TV and radio listings) from 1923 to 2009. You can find out what was supposed to be on the air in Britain any day or time within this period - it won't necessarily reflect changes were made after the listings were published, of course. This includes program ( Read more... )

Hiya. :) I'm writing a fic that involves a first responder as the main ( Read more... )

Setting: Toronto, 1979-80 ( Read more... )

Yeah, that about says it all. I've tried googling that question, googling when radio stations shut down (and I got when they closed or were sold), and radio listings, hoping I'd find something that was useful ( Read more... )

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."
A compiled reference and fact guide to writing fic for the 1930s.

As asked for, here's the follow-up on my 1920s guide! [US-oriented]

( The 1930s. )

I know they had radar, or the allies did at least, but I'm wondering since the cockpits were still open, and that's the way I have my planes in my story, if the noise of the engine would have defeated the purpose of a radio on board a fighter plane of that level of technology, or if headphones would be required to make it plausible for these planes ( Read more... )