One day last week German listeners, tuned to their home stations, caught the cultured enemy accents of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill himself, coming over the same Nazi radio that ...

It took three radio sound men, a control-room engineer and five hours of hard work to create the sound that was heard for less than 30 seconds on the air. The sound consisted of a ticking ...

There are two options: One supports eight sound effect buttons, the other allows 11. (Notice one board has pins 0–7 while the other has pins 0–10.) For applications where sound effects are only a few ...

The BBC’s sound effect library has been expanded to contain over 33,000 samples, which are available to download for free as WAV files or MP3s.. While the archive has been open since 2018, it has ...

It’s 200 years since Thomas De Quincey wrote On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, the first serious consideration of the strange and powerful psychological impact of sound effects - sounds ...

Among the 33,000 sound effects, free for anyone to use, are reindeer grunts, frog croaks and crowds at the 1989 FA Cup Final. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 26, 2024.) ...