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Alan Pennington retweeted
My look at a Cold War radio story barely known outside Italy: "Oggi in Italia", the 1950s&60s station with an audience of millions. It's been written about in Italian, but there's almost nothing in English. radioatlanticodelsur.blogspo… @claudioc @aborgnino @italradio @MediaHistoryNow
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Apr 15
"Radio 4’s Long Wave (LW) service will be closing later this year. Before the service ends, listeners will receive at least two months’ notice. We will also broadcast daily on-air reminders to help everyone switch to other ways of listening." Details:
bbc.co.uk/reception/work-war…
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50 years ago today, 8th March 1976, the new independent local radio station for Reading and the Thames Valley, Radio 210, launched on 1430 kHz, but named after its medium wave wavelength, 210 metres. #OnThisDay
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Feb 13
Stand with Cuba!
Please take 30 seconds to ask your MP to sign EDM 2739 and say no to Trump's latest attack on the Cuban people. bit.ly/EDM2739 @CubaSolidarity
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Alan Pennington retweeted
Jan 25
BBC Radio Lancashire has been broadcasting for 55 years, as of tomorrow, starting as Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971. From 2021 Graham Liver and Gerald Jackson tell the story of the first half century youtu.be/D2Pwd9vHnfo
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30 Dec 2025
RTVE news report on closure of many of the Radio Nacional de Espana medium wave transmitters in Spain in the early hours this morning (30 December).
29 Dec 2025
📻Esta madrugada, las emisiones de @rne y @radio5_rne a través de la Onda Media, se apagan tras casi 90 años en marcha
➡️Con ello, las señales de FM y DAB van a reforzarse en los próximos años
🫤 Algunos radioaficionados ven esta noticia con recelo
🎙️@CosmeVizcaino
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Alan Pennington retweeted
20 Sep 2025
65' A stoppage here as the referee calls both Managers over. The game may be in jeoprady here due to the conditions.
🟡 2-1 🟣
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Alan Pennington retweeted
We are now on air on 4545 KHz . 😃
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Alan Pennington retweeted
8 Aug 2025
Tonight on @BBCRadio3 @bbcproms there's a celebration of 100 Years of the #ShippingForecast featuring @UlsterOrchestra and hosted by @CLNicholls & @alryanradio Article in this week's @RadioTimes has more bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gf2… #BBCProms
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Alan Pennington retweeted
6 Aug 2025
Noticed a hazier sky today?
It’s not just high cloud drifting in from the west - smoke from Canadian wildfires has travelled thousands of miles and is now affecting skies across Europe 🛰️
A striking reminder of how interconnected our atmosphere is.
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Alan Pennington retweeted
6 Aug 2025
The idea that humans will always act rationally, that technology will always work perfectly and that miscalculations will always be avoided is one hell of an assumption….yet that flimsy & flawed notion underpins the whole argument of nuclear deterrence
6 Aug 2025
Why is Britain commemorating Hiroshima’s 80th anniversary by investing in new nuclear weapons? | Caroline Lucas (@carolinelucas)
👇This story is currently free to read 👇
independent.co.uk/voices/hir…
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Alan Pennington retweeted
2 Aug 2025
Tune in if you are in the vicinity of LV18 in Harwich - vinyl music from the 60's and 70's. Live from a radio ship on Medium Wave - just like it used to be! 1575 kHz / 190 metres!!
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18 Jul 2025
Ancient & Modern: Ruin of Minsmere chapel, passed on a circular walk from Dunwich Heath to Eastbridge and back along the beach. Includes a WW2 pill box and a beautiful modern glass art installation.
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Alan Pennington retweeted
5 Jul 2025
This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:
“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.
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Alan Pennington retweeted
8 May 2025
White smoke emerges from the chimney in the Vatican meaning a new pope has been elected. The new leader of the Catholic world is expected to appear on the balcony overlooking St Peter's Square in the next hour.
🎧 Listen live for news on BBC World Service: bbc.in/4jOsNo2
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Alan Pennington retweeted
6 May 2025
Enough. Stop equivocating. Stop aiding ethnic cleansing. Stop arming Israel.
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Alan Pennington retweeted
15 Apr 2025
We will always remember the 97.
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Alan Pennington retweeted
12 Apr 2025
🧵TREE CRIME ALERT.
Felled Without Warning: The 300–500-Year Ancient Oak Tree Cut down in Whitewebbs Park
WHO did this?? Does anyone recognise the number plates? Someone is responsible!!
@EnfieldCouncil @thespursweb @FOWhitewebbs @tobycarvery @AdamCormack_ @TheStreetTree
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