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Damon Albarn will be broadcasting from every BBC radio station simultaneously, in order to mark 90 years of radio.
The Blur and Gorillaz man has created an 'audio collage' that will be simultaneously broadcast across the BBC later today. The piece has been named 'Radio Reunited', and it is said approximately 120 million people will tune in to hear it.
It will be a three minute transmission comprised of recorded messages from listeners. The messages have been submitted by people from all over the world and follow the theme of 'the future'.
Each of the BBC's 60 radio stations will then choose one message and these will be set to a track composed by Albarn.
He told the Today programme: "The idea was people would be asked the question, What message would you give to somebody listening in 90 years' time?
"There was this sort of anxiety and then there were a few younger minds musing on this and they in a way were the most interesting because they were very free and in a sense the only people who will have any connection with 90 years."
Damon Albarn performing with Blur at Hyde Park in August
The broadcast will be heard all over the world via the BBC's international stations such as the World Service, Albarn also spoke of how challenging it will be to create something that translates to every demographic.
He added: "I don't know what the various audiences will make of it… the biggest kind of block I had was, I can't make it too Radio 4, but I can't make it too Radio 1, but in Nigeria, none of those apply, or Afghanistan.
The Today programme also gave a suggestion of some of the sounds that will be included in Albarn's collage.
Likely noises include the chimes of Big Ben, a skylark, the name Bertrand Russell in Morse Code, and the sound of a Cold War Spy Station, and the BBC radio 'pips'.
"I tried to get the history of radio in a very abstract way," says Albarn. "I don't know what people will make of it – it is what it is."
Radio Reunited will be aired tonight at 5.33pm, marking exactly 90 years since the BBC's first radio broadcast.
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