The people talking on my mums radio were actually tiny people inside the radio - one man and one woman it seemed, about 2 inches tall. I couldn't figure out where the music came from, or how they kept so quiet when the radio was switched off.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon
- I use to believe all the people singing on the radio were IN the radio.— Yvonne
- I used to believe that little people lived in the radio.— Brittany
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe
- I used to believe there was a newsreader inside the radio where the light was!!— Christine
- When I was little, I was convinced that musicians lived inside the radio...little versions of them, that is!— pcmkrfn