I recall reading an article...
..about two Italian brothers in the 50s or 60s that had claimed they'd picked up radio signals from Soviet cosmonauts that were stranded in space. It may have been complete bollocks as far as I know but it was a bloody good yarn regardless... I'll see if I can find the link...

Edit: don't think this was the specific one I read, but it covers the same story: www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1302/lost_in_space.html
(I Was a Teenage Spaceship, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:45, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

thanks for that
made some really interesting reading
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 17:00, Reply)

There was a lot of audio from space...
...picked up on ham radios. Some of the best Yuri Gagarin audio that survives was taped by a guy sitting in his shed somewhere near Macclesfield.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 18:43, Reply)

I had no idea

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 18:56, Reply)