Radio you find with the lights off.

Independent night radio, Port Caddis. Touch to aim, scroll to tune.

Four rooms, four frequencies, all live from midnight to five in a building on the Port Caddis waterfront. No adverts, no daylight, no faces on the posters.

88.7FM

Room Tone

Studio A, no host, the mic stays open

The empty studio, live. Rain on the glass, a console ticking over, one lamp. Half the city falls asleep to it on purpose.

Scroll to tune to the next room.

91.3FM

Unsent

with Inès Barral · Room B

Callers read the letters they never posted. Inès reads the ones that turn up with no return address.

96.1FM

Side B Only

with Mara Quist · Room C

Vinyl only, never the single. Pressings under three hundred copies, played at whatever speed Mara decides they deserve.

103.9FM

Graveyard Shift

with Theo Lindqvist · Room D

A call-in for everyone working while the city sleeps. Bakers at two, tunnel crews at four, first tram drivers at half past.

Four rooms, one night, nothing repeats.

00:00Tonight's rundown, scroll through it
88.7 Room ToneSign-on, lamp on
Sign-on, lamp on
The room, uninterrupted
Line 4 playback
91.3 UnsentThe harbour district
The harbour district
Letters to landlords
Addressed to fathers
96.1 Side B OnlyUnder 300 copies
Under 300 copies
78s at the wrong speed
Records left in houses
103.9 Graveyard ShiftBakers' hour
Bakers' hour
Tunnel crew calls in
First trams

You were never meant to see them. Hover to look anyway.

Inès Barral laughing into a studio condenser microphone under green light
91.3

Inès Barral

Unsent, on air since 2009

Nine letters a night. I read them exactly as they were written, crossings-out and all.
Mara Quist cueing a record on a white turntable beside a glowing green meter
96.1

Mara Quist

Side B Only, on air since 1994

If it charted, it isn't on my shelf. I play the side nobody bothered to flip.
Theo Lindqvist smiling off-mic with headphones around his neck
103.9

Theo Lindqvist

Graveyard Shift, on air since 2017

Everyone else is asleep, so the bakers and the tunnel crews end up talking to each other. I just keep the line open.

Line 4 stays open until the signal ends.

This is the request line. Say where you are and what is keeping you up. No names. At 04:40 Room Tone plays the night's messages back, one after another, to everyone still awake.

Messages last night
212
Playback, all rooms
04:40
Names read out
0
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