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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 大象传媒 Empire Service was first broadcast on 19 September 1932.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

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