A pilgrimage to Marconi’s shrine

In 2009, what drew broadcaster Ben Starr to Rome and the Vatican was not the Pope or the Sistine Chapel, but the original Vatican Radio station that Marconi built for Pius XI in the grounds of the Vat...

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