In a message of 10 Jun 97 Matt Smith +c wrote to Deforest Sparks:
 DS>>  Then how would they even afford to buy the radios to listen ?
 MSc>     Most people in Third World nations _can't_ afford a radio.
 MSc>     Get an almanac.  Most list the number of radios (UN statistics) in
 MSc> every country.  Divide that into the population, and you will fast see
 MSc> that 
 MSc> the overwhelming majority of the people in a typical Third World
 MSc> country 
 MSc> cannot afford even a single radio in their household.
I dont know what you  class as a third world country, but we
regularly visit The Gambia, West Africa ex British colony, going
away from the towns and villages most homes have a transistor
radio, if not homes substitute community, I know The Gambia is not
as poor as some countries but anyone who's been there and travelled
away from the built up areas will tell you how important a radio is
to the everyday life.
Slightly different subject, I remember a few years ago getting a
train out of Tunis, capital of Tunisia, North Africa. About 30
miles away from Tunis the train was passing through some scrub land
and we passed what I would describe as a lean to type of wooden
shack roofed with grass sods, they had a television aerial.
Steve Walford
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