how many radios do you have?

One! Two! Three! One is a shortwave so I can get instructions from Havana.

I have one giant ghetto blaster. You don't really get good reception in Manhattan and since I have a computer with speakers and a subwoofer for CD purposes, I don't bother with radios/stereos anymore.

One by the bed to wake us up in the morning. One in the living room, one in the spare bedroom/computer room. A wee portable one that I take to the football that I won in a Bacardi promotion at the bar. Another showerproof one that my husband won in an online competition. One in each car. The computer. The tv (can get various radio stations via cable).

So, that'll be nine, that we use. I think there are a couple of old ones in the hall cupboard as well.

(Not counting the 'puter) One, really. In the kitchen.
...My wife was given a small souvenier-ish looking thingy, resembling a miniature ancient-model radio, as a present by the folks at her former working place, but that darn contraption pretty soon stopped functioning.

I have 9, I guess.

A tiny Sony radio walkman with digital presets that is permanently in my coat pocket.

A larger Sony radio walkman that is sitting in a box of stuff, unused in ages.

An old Aiwa radio cassette walkman on which the tape plays too fast. I kept it for ages because it was once v.expensive, having a recording facility. I used it as a radio walkman when I lost the Sony one for a while, and before I got the tiny Sony one. I am thinking it's also in that box. But maybe I threw it out.

Another radio cassette walkman, Panasonic, huge and very old, that my Indian grandmother must have given me in about 1990. It's in the loft above my bedroom at my parents house.

A Sony transistor radio that I move between the basin area and the shower.

An older Sony transistor radio, almost the same as the above, but which I replaced because I dropped it (down the loo?) and it no longer picks up AM. Kept it in a box somewhere just in case I need a spare one.

My Bush radio clock alarm, which sits by my bed. My sister gave it to me several years ago, after the buttons on my previous, white cube Alba one got unresponsive. Unfortunately, the Bush ones are very stif, which makes setting the alarm very annoying. I thought they would loosen up with time, but they haven't.

A little blue Realistic radio with a strap. I've never used this much. It's not very good and I think not long after I bought it I decided it was worth spending a bit more to get the Sony.

An old Harmon Kardon receiver that looks very handsome. I bought it secondhand in 1995 from a man in Oldham. It broke shortly afterwards. My mum got it fixed but then it broke again. I haven't the heart to tell her to just throw it out.

I suddenly feel like a terrible hoarder.

I also have a JVC receiver that I bought from Hyper-Fi in 1987, as part of my first stereo setup. It's on permanent loan to a friend. I guess maybe it's hers now. And my Freeview digital TV box, which picks up digital radio stations too, but I'm not sure if that counts as a radio. Or this computer.

Tracer has somehow managed to make the whole ideas of radios very poignant.

I'm still a bigger radio fan than anything else. I watch a couple hours of TV on Sunday nights, but I must listen to 25-30 hours a week of radio between work and home. It's pretty cool that such an media has held up so well.

I bring a little old transistor to the beach... it has the TV function so you can LISTEN to Celebrity Justice while reclining in the sand.

Had 2 boomboxes, though I gave one away to a Jamaican cousin when the CD player quit working. Now, I have one that I blast during my showers/lounge sessions in the Jacuzzi.

My mom must have over 10, easily. She's a fuckin' freak. It has turned me off AM radio forever. I think a life of electromagnetic interference has done wonders for my brain.

It's only poignant if you neglect them, N. Send one to me, I need a bathroom radio. I've taken to your British long-soak steez.

I have:
one in the living room
one in the car
a hundred and eighty-seven at work.

None. My girlfriend has one in her car, so the only time I listen to local radio is there.

A week or so after I moved into my last apartment in New Orleans, the management was selling off a bunch of stuff because someone had abandoned their apartment and disappeared, so I furnished my apartment from there, and got an old wooden 1960s-era stereo along with the rest of it (the dining table that weighs a ton, the old tobacco-yellow couch and loveseat, the black velvet Jesus, the brass lamp). It was big and bulky (and gorgeous) and I ran out of large boxes long before I got to it when I moved, though, so it didn't come with me. I don't think I'd ever used it except during hurricane times or when I felt like listening to jazz.

I own about 4. I only listen to test match special though on my portable radio. One is attached to my main CD plying system. One is under my bed, one is hanging up, the other is on my desk. The best is my Roberts world radio.

a sony clock radio in the bedroom
a roberts travel radio in the bathroom
a cheap crap radio in the spare room
a Nad separate one in the living room
the digital box
the one on my minidisc player (which is rapidly giving up the ghost)

I *need* the radio - especially for 5live and Danny Baker

I don't really have a traditional standalone 'radio' - the closest thing is my mini-stereo system thingy in my bedroom which of course has a radio as part of it. I listen to radio via Sky (satellite) in the living room, and anywhere else I usually stream it off the ol' webernet.

the Roberts travel radio is the best one I've ever had. Bought it before I went to Thailand (nearly two years ago now), use it every day, and I've only changed the batteries twice. And it has a good signal too. It's a prince among radios

News you can use!

4 poss more, plus digital radio via digital TV. FAvourite is an old roberts from a charity shop, FM is busted, requires a poke around to fix.

Only two: the big tuner hooked up to my stereo and the battered Panasonic tape player that was responsible for sing-a-long-a-Andrew-Lloyd-Webber incident at Glastonbury last year.

The continued existence of Roberts makes me oddly happy.

It used to make me happy, but now the wrong people have them.

I just have the basic sound system set-up and the computer. I use them to listen to radio about once every ten years these days, admittedly.

Are you some sort of radioist?

No, just contemplative.

sorry, x-post - that was directed at N.

It was supposed to be straightforwardly classist, but I was joking.

Two, one is part of my Pukel-Stereo, and the other is a clock radio that today woke me up with a Bryan Adams track - I knew randomly turning the dial away from Nick Ferrari on LBC would have had punishing results.

It used to make me happy, but now the wrong people have them.
-- N. (nickdastoo...), March 4th, 2004.

Yeah, my mom.

Two. One in my car, and one as a function of my alarm clock that I never, ever use.

4, one for each 100 sq. ft. of my apartment!

"Surround sound"! That's the spirit!

4. One on my stereo, one on my walkman, one in the cd/radio thing in the kitchen, and one that i made, but it can only tune into 5live.