In Lance Dann’s opinion, what is the most appealing about radio is the act of broadcasting – the intimacy between the listener and broadcaster, that is not present in podcast and internet transmissions.

I also think, that the volatility and a real-timness of the radio broadcast radio is it’s unique quality and can not be mimicked. The fact that there is someone out there talking to you – the listener, the sense of intimacy and instant connection is an exceptional for the radio.

In1967 Michel Foucault presented the idea of the “heterotopia”, places that were apart from but constitutive of human society. These are spaces in which the rules of ordinary behavior are, in different ways, suspended to permit the enactment of a variety of processes and rituals that do not occur in ordinary spaces. It’s is a physical approximation of imaginary utopia or a parallel space that makes utopia possible somewhere else.

Over the last couple of years, when going out to see live music or performance was often impossible, that sense of intimacy through live broadcast returned in a slightly changed form – live streams. It provided people with a substitute of real closeness and interaction, by gathering them in front of computers to see the artist streaming their performance live, broadly available for anyone who wanted to experience it.