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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes:
Despite the BBC announcing the end of its regular Arabic broadcasts in January 2023…
…the British broadcaster created, in May and November of the same year, an extraordinary service that transmits programming in Arabic to Gaza and Sudan.This is the BBC’s “emergency radio service,”…
…broadcasting Sunday to Thursday on 15280 kHz, a frequency that is not listed in the official BBC schedule…
…but is mentioned on the short-wave.info website and the shortwave.am app.
And here’s the illustrated radio listening report of one of those transmissions.
Here is the latest illustrated radio listening report, featuring part of the BBC and Vatican Radio coverage of Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa, and the PDF containing all the reports from this important apostolic journey.
Hi to all SWLing Post community. Here’s news of what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the ionosphere this weekend.
Thanks to the services of Shortwave Gold we have a few programmes this week coming. The first show is WWLS – “We Love Shortwave”. It’s a show all about what we all love, shortwave radio! Standby for sounds of the shortwave, music containing shortwave samples and a live debut of Twelve Mega Hurts, the ham radio choir from Cleveland (*subject to availability and atmospheric conditions).
The schedule for the show is on Saturday 25th April at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 26th April at 0900/1300 UTC on 6160 kHz and 2000 hrs on 3975 kHz/6160 kHz. Get your (shortwave) set set, and tune in!
Then on Monday 27th April (and repeated on May 4th) at 20:00 UTC on 3975 kHz/6160 kHz, we have a new Monday evening slot with a special called “Skybird Soul on Shortwave”. Expect all sorts of great soul tunes from old to new, soul classics and lots of “one’s that got away”.
There’s an extra hour of WWLS – “We Love Shortwave” on WRMI on Wednesday 29th April 2026 at 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz. Same subject as the shows on Shortwave Gold but different content.
For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist, Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report of a recent Vatican Radio & BBC broadcast.
Carlos notes:
Vatican Radio & BBC: Pope Leo XIV lands in Cameroon for second leg of his Apostolic Journey
…the British broadcaster created, in May and November of the same year, an extraordinary service that transmits programming in Arabic to Gaza and Sudan.This is the BBC’s “emergency radio service,”…
