"Listeners lament the demise of broadcasts on Long Wave. Gareth Mitchell, former BBC Engineer and now lecturer at London’s Imperial College, hears what they have to say."
Broadcast 11 August, listen on demand online here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pfps
More tweets now added to the thread taking the story up to the closure of Ottringham in 1953. Now 109 tweets.
I didn't see them when I first checked the threadreader link after seeing they'd been added to on what is now X. At the end of the tweets I could so was a link to force a refresh which made them appear. Think means that they'll now be able to be viewed by everyone.
Chris had added more tweets to the thread this morning. It now covers BBC longwave during WW2, 76 tweets.
All now on the threadreaderapp link, excellent site which I hadn't come across before. Twitter is often slow to load these days or even down.
Chris still works at BBC Monitoring, "Watching the world from BBC Monitoring since 1981. Header photo shows Caversham Park, Monitoring's HQ 1943-2018. Interests include radio, history & geopolitics."
He has a detailed blog on the use of radio in psychological warfare operations.
https://radioatlanticodelsur.blogspot.com/
Good read.
There is a very interesting and long, 38 tweets, thread on twitter from Chris Greenway @ChrisGreenwayUK (ex BBC Monitoring) about the 99 year history of BBC on long wave.
You can read the complete thread without access to twitter at https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1677945445669109761.html
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