The world changed on July 1st, 1979: the day that Sony released the iconic Walkman TPS-L2, the first real portable music player that would revolutionise the way we listened to music in a way that no other device really had ever done before. Boomboxes and portable radios had been around for a while, but the Walkman made portable music private, ushering in a whole new era of people listening to music away from home.

Produced by: Richard Bradbury & Jeff Sandhu & Arvindh Yuvaraj

Presented by: Richard Bradbury & Jeff Sandhu & Arvindh Yuvaraj

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