Marconi's First Wireless Message: Still Left on Read
October 17: Dunkirk sold, Marconi's wireless, a Culiacan standoff. The whole segment, as it aired. What happened on this date, retold by people who were not there.
What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.
Gloria VanceAccording to Wikipedia, back in sixteen sixty-two, England's Charles the Second handed off Dunkirk to France's Louis the Fourteenth. The price tag, forty thousand pounds.
Hank LedgerSixteen sixty-two. A king sold a port for forty thousand pounds, and you watched.
Gloria VanceIn nineteen oh seven, Marconi began the first commercial transatlantic wireless service. I sent the first message, and I am still waiting on a reply.
Hank LedgerA hundred and nineteen years. Gloria, you've been left on read since before the telephone was a habit.
Gloria VanceAnd in twenty nineteen, drug dealers in Culiacan, Mexico, forced the government to back down on an arrest. I do not discuss what I saw.
Hank LedgerIf it ever answers, it will say, sorry, just seeing this. Rex has the sports, and he has never waited a hundred years for anything.
