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Listen to a Blooper Reel from the Golden Age of Radio | Mental Floss

To have made it as an announcer during radio's golden age, you had to have a smooth, mellifluous voice, impeccable diction, and at least a decent grasp of world events. But even the best had their off days. In this YouTube compilation, newscasters from the Australia’s ABC News bungle through the daily news, slurring words, misreading sentences, and repeatedly mispronouncing the names of important people and places (is it “Vietnam” or “Viet-na-man”?).