20 November 2023
The mystery that is Dutch broadcasting
3 October 2022
What’s on and how to tune into East Germany’s international service in the 1960s
23 September 2022
The BBC’s chief engineer talks shortwave listeners through the best aerials and automatic volume controls for hearing the BBC Empire Service
12 September 2022
Germany is busy setting up telephone circuits and radio relays for their two Olympic Games
25 July 2022
The BBC helps set up a new broadcaster… in the middle of a hurricane
20 September 2021
The BBC African Service has to move fast when Rhodesia unilaterally declares independence
25 November 2020
It’s all change for Europe’s wavelengths in 1934… but what will Radio Luxembourg do?
16 November 2020
Germany calling, Germany calling, Germany calling no more
4 March 2019
A habit picked up in a hot war carries over into the Cold War: countries shouting at each other over shortwave radio
14 January 2019
The government has promised to vanquish the pirates and then introduce local radio across the UK. But what will the new stations sound like? The Daily Express in 1966 listens in to Manx Radio to find out
26 July 2018
The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 provokes major change at the US radio networks