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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 麻豆社 Empire Service was first broadcast on 19 September 1932.

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9 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

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