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Roger Waters - Mother
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Roger Waters - Amused To Death
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Roger Waters - Perfect Sense, Part I
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Roger Waters - Déjà Vu
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Roger Waters - Any Colour You Like
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Roger Waters - The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range
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Roger Waters - It's a Miracle
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Roger Waters - Another Brick In The Wall (part 1)
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Roger Waters - Speak to Me
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Roger Waters - Oceans Apart
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Roger Waters - The Tide Is Turning
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Roger Waters - 5:01 AM (The Pros And Cons Of Hitchhiking, Pt. 10)
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Roger Waters - Wait For Her
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Roger Waters - In The Flesh
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Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
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Roger Waters - The Bar
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Roger Waters - Perfect Sense, part II
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Roger Waters - The Powers That Be
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Roger Waters - 5.06 AM (Every Strangers Eyes)
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Roger Waters - Time
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Roger Waters - Another Brick in the wall (part 2)
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Roger Waters - The Bar (Reprise)
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Roger Waters - 4.41 AM (Sexual Revolution)
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Roger Waters - 4.47 AM (The Remains Of Our Love)
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Roger Waters - Another Brick In The Wall (part 3)
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Roger Waters - Déjà Vu
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Roger Waters - Each Small Candle
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Roger Waters - Hello (I Love You)
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Roger Waters - Picture That
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Roger Waters - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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Roger Waters - The Last Refugee
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Roger Waters - Wish You Were Here
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Roger Waters - 4.30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)
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Roger Waters - 4.33 AM (Running Shoes)
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Roger Waters - 4.58 AM (Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin)
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Roger Waters - Breathe
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Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb
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Roger Waters - Dogs
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Roger Waters - Pigs On The Wing
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Roger Waters - Welcome to the Machine
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Roger Waters - 4.50 AM (Go Fishing)
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Roger Waters - 4.56 AM (For The First Time Today Part 1)
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Roger Waters - Ça Ira
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Roger Waters - Empty Spaces
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Roger Waters - Folded Flags
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Roger Waters - Four Minutes
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Roger Waters - Happiest Days of Our Lives
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Roger Waters - Hey You
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Roger Waters - Home
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Roger Waters - On The Run
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Roger Waters - One Of My Turns
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Roger Waters - Run Like Hell
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Roger Waters - Sheep
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Roger Waters - Smell The Roses
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Roger Waters - The Ballad Of Bill Hubbard
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Roger Waters - The Most Beautiful Girl
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Roger Waters - The Thin Ice
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Roger Waters - 4.37 AM (Arabs With Knives And West German Skies)
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Roger Waters - 4.39 AM (For The First Time Today Part 2)
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Roger Waters - 5.11 AM (The Moment Of Clarity)
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Roger Waters - Bird In a Gale
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Roger Waters - Brain Damage
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Roger Waters - Chain of Life
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Roger Waters - Get Back to Radio
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Roger Waters - Get Your Filthy Hand off my Desert
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Roger Waters - Going to Live in L.A.
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Roger Waters - Is There Anybody Out There?
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Roger Waters - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
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Roger Waters - Leaving Beirute
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Roger Waters - Me Or Him
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Roger Waters - Money
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Roger Waters - Nobody Home
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Roger Waters - Part Of Me Died
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Roger Waters - Radio Waves
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Roger Waters - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
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Roger Waters - Smell the Roses
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Roger Waters - The Fallout
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Roger Waters - The Great Gig In The Sky
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Roger Waters - The Happiest Days of Our Lives
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Roger Waters - The Trial
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Roger Waters - Three Wishes
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Roger Waters - To Kill The Child
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Roger Waters - Waiting For The Worms
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Roger Waters - Watching TV
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Roger Waters - What God Wants, Part I
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Roger Waters - What God Wants, part III
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Roger Waters - What Have They Done
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Roger Waters - Breathe (In The Air)
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Roger Waters - Bring the Boys Back Home
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Roger Waters - Broken Bones
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Roger Waters - Crystal Clear Brooks
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Roger Waters - Don't Leave Me Now
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Roger Waters - Eclipse
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Roger Waters - Facts and Figures
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Roger Waters - Flickering Flame
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Roger Waters - Give Birth to a Smile
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Roger Waters - Goobye Blue Sky
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Roger Waters - Goodbye Cruel World
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Roger Waters - Honest Bird, Simple Bird
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Roger Waters - Incarceration of a Flower Child
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Roger Waters - Its Me or Him
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Roger Waters - Kings, Sticks And Birds
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Roger Waters - Late Home Tonight, Part I
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Roger Waters - Late home tonight, part II
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Roger Waters - Lost Boys Calling
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Roger Waters - Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine
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Roger Waters - Molly's Song
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Roger Waters - Radio Kaos
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Roger Waters - Sea Shell an Stone
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Roger Waters - Southampton Dock
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Roger Waters - Stop
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Roger Waters - Sunset Strip
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Roger Waters - The Anderson Shelter
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Roger Waters - The Attack
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Roger Waters - The Ballad Of Jean Charles de Menezes
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Roger Waters - The Power Of Love
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Roger Waters - The Story
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Roger Waters - Too Much Rope
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Roger Waters - Towers Of Faith
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Roger Waters - Us and Them
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Roger Waters - Vera
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Roger Waters - What God Wants, Part II
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Roger Waters - When the Wind Blows
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Roger Waters - Who Needs Information
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Roger Waters - Young Lust
The Story
Roger Waters
Billy is different, he can receive radio waves directly without the aid of a tuner; he explores the cordless phone, recognizing its radioness. Benny is sent to prison. Billy feels as if half of him has been cut off. He misses Benny's nightly conversations with radio hams in foreign parts. Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to stay with his Great Uncle David, who had emigrated to the USA during the war. Much as Billy likes Uncle David and the sunshine and all the new radio in LA, he cannot adjust to the cultural upheaval and the loss of Benny, who for him is 'home'.
Uncle David, now an old man, is haunted by having worked on the Manhattan project during World War II, designing the Atom Bomb, and seeks to atone. He also is a radio ham; he often talks to other hams about the Black Hills of his youth, the Male Voice Choir, about home. He is saddened by the use of telecommunication to trivialise important issues, the soap opera of state. However, Live Aid has decynicised him to an extent. Billy listens to David and hears the truth the old man speaks.
Billy experiments with his cordless phone, he learns to make calls. He accesses computers and speech synthesizers, he learns to speak. Billy makes contact with Jim a DJ at Radio KAOS, a renegade rock station fighting a lone rear guard action against format radio. Billy and Jim become radio friends, Reagan and Thatcher bomb Lybia. Billy perceives this as an act of political "entertainment" fireworks to focus attention away from problems at "home".
Billy has developed his expertise with the cordless phone to the point where he can now control the most powerful computers in the world. He plans an "entertainment" of his own. He simulates nuclear attack everywhere, but de-activates the military capability of "the powers that be" to retaliate. In extremes perceptions change, Panic, comedy, compassion. In a SAC bunker a soldier in a white cravat turns a key to launch the counter attack. Nothing happens; impotently he kicks the console, hurting his foot. He watches the approaching blips on the radar screen. As impact approaches, he thinks of his wife and kids, he puts his fingers in his ears.
Silence. White out. Black out. Lights out. It didn't happen, we're still alive. Billy has drained the earth of power to create his illusion. All over the dark side of the earth, candles are lit. In the pub in Billy's home village in Wales one man starts to sing; the other men join in. The tide is turning.
Billy is home.