I was just doing some mooching through eBays' Radiogram listings, I've seen 88 to 100 on mid to late 50s radios before they extended it up to 108, but I've never seen a 88 to 95 before



Or 95 to 88

MC/s that is.

Test Match Special isn't on Radio 4 Longwave.



I spent ages setting up a AM radio in preparation. I'd have been better off with a DAB radio.

Hang on, this is Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers, not Sarf Africa vs. Eng-er-lund, what's occurring!?

Found it!

https://talksport.com/sport/cricket/647191/england-vs-south-africa-tour-live-on-talksport-kevin-pietersen-commentary/

South Africa appear to have a bowler called 'Nokia'.

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No old skool cell phone...

https://emojipedia.org/mobile-phone/

I like the way that the Windows one looks like a Windows phone, google an android one, and apple like a iPhone.

"Anrich Nortje"

??

Just turned the radio over to FM:

Betty Boo - Doing the Do

Hang on, it's radio 2!

Oh, I forgot the dial went backwards.

There are some recordings of the radio broadcast of the Marx Brothers (well, two of 'em) Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel

https://archive.org/details/FlywheelShysterFlywheelHQ/

Makes a change from the BBC adaptations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel,_Shyster,_and_Flywheel wrote:

Each episode incorporated material from two or three different original episodes, and occasionally included additional jokes from Marx Brothers' films.

More than a touch of the restorer putting themselves as equal to the creator. Oh, Dirk Maggs.

I didn't realise that. I used to quite like the BBC version of FSF, but that's put me off.

OTOH the Peter Cook Why Bother? recordings are great, some of the best things he did, and they were painstakingly gleaned from hours of drunken ramblings by Chris Morris.

Fangirl Three wrote:

OTOH the Peter Cook Why Bother? recordings are great, some of the best things he did, and they were painstakingly gleaned from hours of drunken ramblings by Chris Morris.

It's the spiritual heir to Derick and Clive. With none of that potty mouthed nonsense.

'I can remember every single pine needle on that trudge through the forest towards Toronto.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0084gr2

Is it by Steven Moffat?

I've been waiting since 1981 for them to repeat that!

I bet it's rubbish.

I got that from the shop, and it wasn't exactly rubbish, but it wasn't much good either.

Let me put it this way, if I'd caught it on Radio 4 at the time I'd have listened to the whole thing, but I wouldn't have been sorry that I hadn't taped it.

It's quite well researched, the climactic sea fight on the shore at Whitby correctly refers to the flat rock that's just offshore from the beaches to the south of the port, enabling one to wade out hundreds of yards in warm water in summer 1980 before encountering a sudden coldness and darkness that makes one pause and turn back to the shore and happy things.

Looking at the seabed map that part of the coast really is a land/sea of contrasts - the long flat foreshore, but after that the sea is quickly deeper than almost anywhere else along the British coast.

I did tune in listen to the Rugby on the radio, but they covering a Sh*teball match instead.



Fortunately.

I bought a new (1990s) radio!



It's better on FM+MW than the Armstrong old one, but not as good on LW, which is what I bought it for, TMS FTW!

I should have got a d*g*tal radio,

Was cheap though. And it can pick up Rock Radio, which no other radio can as it's too close to another far stronger channel, SuperNarrow yah!

Oh, it's not Rock Radio anymore, it's a indie channel now

Oh, just remembered, anyone notice anything unusual about the AM band on the Armstrong tuner?

Ooh, are the numbers x10KHz?