"Adrian C" wrote
| Just get a couple (or three - depending on what talk radio stations
| you listen to) of cheap small clock radios, hack a connection inside
| each to mute the speaker, and trail an indiscrete bunch of wires to
| your bedside table with a rotary switch.

A variant on the Crossroads class of hotel (and hospital) bedhead radios,
about 6 channels fed from central 100V tuner/amps, with a 1-watt speaker in
a bedhead unit with rotary switches for channel and (stepped attenuator)
volume.

Owain