{"id":24849,"date":"2017-03-27T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24849"},"modified":"2017-03-27T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T02:21:35","slug":"wireless-nights-on-bbc-radio-4-features-london-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/wireless-nights-on-bbc-radio-4-features-london-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Nights on BBC Radio 4 features London Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of London Shortwave’s portable spectrum capture systems<\/p><\/div>\n

I am very happy to share that the BBC Radio 4 program Wireless Nights, Series 5<\/a>, features our own community member\u00a0London Shortwave<\/a>\u00a0this week. The show aired tonight (March 27) and\u00a0the audio is now available to stream via the Radio 4 website. I’ve also embedded the audio below:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/5\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download\/proto\/http\/vpid\/p04y5xyl.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Here’s the description of the show from Radio 4:<\/p>\n

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Wireless Nights<\/a>,<\/span>Series 5<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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Jarvis Cocker navigates the ether as he continues his nocturnal exploration of the human condition.<\/p>\n

On a night voyage across a sea of shortwave he meets those who broadcast, monitor and harvest electronic radio transmissions after dark.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Paddy Macaloon, founder of the band Prefab Sprout, took to trawling the megahertz when he was recovering from eye surgery and the world around him became dark. Tuning in at night he developed a ghostly romance with far off voices and abnormal sounds.<\/p>\n

Artist Katie Paterson and ‘Moonbouncer’ Peter Blair send Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the moon and back, to find sections of it swallowed up by craters.<\/p>\n

Journalist Colin Freeman was captured by the Somali pirates he went to report on and held hostage in a cave. But when one of them loaned him a shortwave radio, the faint signal to the outside world gave him hope as he dreamed of freedom.<\/p>\n

And “London Shortwave” hides out in a park after dark, with his ear to the speaker on his radio, slowly turning the dial to reach all four corners of the earth<\/p>\n

Jarvis sails in and out of their stories – from the cosmic to the captive – as he wonders what else is out there, deep in the noise<\/p>\n

Producer Neil McCarthy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I found Megahertz<\/a>\u00a0absolutely captivating! I’m very impressed with how all of the personal adventures in\u00a0radio, including an array of motivations, were weaved together.<\/p>\n

And brilliant job, London Shortwave! It was fun to go on a park outing with you and your spectrum capture gear!<\/p>\n

Click here to listen to Megahertz on BBC Radio 4.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am very happy to share that the BBC Radio 4 program Wireless Nights, Series 5, features our own community member\u00a0London Shortwave\u00a0this week. The show aired tonight (March 27) and\u00a0the audio is now available to stream via the Radio 4 website. I’ve also embedded the audio below: http:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/5\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download\/proto\/http\/vpid\/p04y5xyl.mp3 Here’s the description of the show from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43,5],"tags":[1347,2704,4082,6057,6058],"class_list":["post-24849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-london-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-wireless-nights","tag-wireless-nights-megahertz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6sN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34518,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/1917-first-wireless-transmission-from-new-zealand-to-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":24849,"position":0},"title":"1917: First wireless transmission from New Zealand to London","author":"Thomas","date":"October 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: New Zealand History\u00a0via Andrea Borgnino) First trans-global radio transmission to London From the family sheep station in Shag Valley, East Otago, amateur radio operator Frank Bell sent a groundbreaking Morse code transmission received and replied to by London-based amateur operator Cecil Goyder. 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