ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the unfulfilled potential of the public service broadcasters’ radio archives as a tool for disseminating cultural heritage on location. It describes how media design is used as a method to develop Pastfinder, a web application where historic audio from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) is implemented to augment a protected landscape with a rich cultural history. The text discusses its potential to represent a new form of media tourism. Mobile technology makes it possible to bring the archive sound back to the places they are linked to, but the study shows accessing the clips for this type of use can be challenging. It argues that more accessibility could contribute to revitalising the radio archives and that this type of sound can evoke memories and might lead to a different, perhaps even deeper understanding of the past than new recordings of historic events.
