When radio first entered Palestine, it brought with it excitement and fascination, symbolizing cutting edge communication technology and promising to spread modernity over the ether waves. At the same time, radio could not avoid entangling with the political complexity of Mandate Palestine. The Mandate Government established the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1936 as a station that broadcast in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, and therefore created a cultural arena that was shared between Palestinian Arabs and Jews, delivering Hebrew cultural productions to the heart of the Arab public sphere, and vice versa. The Palestinian station thus became a focal point of political discussions about the state of culture in Palestine and its role in determining the identity of the land. In order to understand the importance of the PBS to Arab Palestinian society, it is necessary to examine its acceptance (or lack thereof) among the listeners. The Arabic press served as a platform for educated listeners to express their opinions on the Palestinian station, to criticize its operation, and to make suggestions for improvement. By examining the discussions in the Arabic press, as well as combining memoirs and interviews, the paper traces the listeners’ responses to the PBS and demonstrates its cultural and political significance. Even before the inauguration of the PBS, the Arabic press viewed the station as a threat, a potential instrument for the Judaization of Palestine. The inauguration ceremony enhanced the listeners’ anxieties when the name of the station was translated to Hebrew as the Broadcasting Service of the Land of Israel. While public discussions in the Arabic press scrutinized the Hebrew broadcasts, they also followed the Arabic broadcasts and commented extensively on their form, content, and meaning, offering suggestions and making requests in the name of the public. The paper argues that despite the identification of radio with the Mandate Government and the initial rejection of the PBS, Palestinian listeners engaged actively with the station, influenced its operation, and gradually accepted it as a significant platform for the articulation of Arab Palestinian culture. Palestinian listeners found their ways to utilize the technology and institution maintained by the government to promote anti-imperial resistance and to enhance national identity. Listening to the radio in Mandate Palestine became a political action.