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It started as a summer experiment: across June and July 1998, Phil England and Ed Baxter put Resonance on 107.3 from the Royal Festival Hall for the London Musicians' Collective. The permanent version arrived on May Day 2002, after the pair won an Arts Council of England grant and a temporary licence through the Radio Authority's Access Radio pilot scheme, going out on a signal three miles wide with a simultaneous webcast. Nobody in the country had tried anything like it before.

More than a hundred series a week come from the people who make them — experimental composition, field recording, sound poetry, long-form interview — and producers keep whatever editorial control broadcasting rules allow. It runs on donations rather than spots, and cites Article 27 of the Universal Declaration, the right to take part in cultural life, as the reason it exists.