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Back to Basics: Transmitting to the World

How programmes are actually transmitted from the UK to around the world

A new six-week series on everything you need to know to enjoy short wave radio. Part five: how programmes are actually transmitted from the UK to around the world. Report from the historic Daventry transmitting station in Northamptonshire, from where the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Empire Service was first broadcast on 19 September 1932.

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9 minutes

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project