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World Service,28 Mar 1991,9 mins

Back to Basics: Transmitting to the World

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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 BBC Empire Service was first broadcast on 19 September 1932.

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