{"id":9748,"date":"2014-05-26T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9748"},"modified":"2014-05-26T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T20:39:20","slug":"remembering-bbc-ottringham-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/remembering-bbc-ottringham-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering BBC Ottringham on Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9750\" style=\"width: 362px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bbc_ottringham1_470x352_352x470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9750\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bbc_ottringham1_470x352_352x470.jpg\" alt=\"The BBC Ottringham complex (Source: BBC Humberside History)\" width=\"352\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bbc_ottringham1_470x352_352x470.jpg 352w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bbc_ottringham1_470x352_352x470-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bbc_ottringham1_470x352_352x470-74x100.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The BBC Ottringham complex (Source: BBC Humberside History)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Jonathan Marks, who shares this amazing story of the BBC Ottringham (a.k.a. <span style=\"color: #252525;\">OSE5)\u00a0<\/span>broadcast site.<\/p>\n<p>Since Ottringham was an active transmitting site during in <em>World War II<\/em>, it makes for a fitting tribute here on <em>Memorial Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On his blog, <em><a title=\"Critical Distance\" href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/05\/ottringham-calling-netherlands.html\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Distance<\/a><\/em>, Jonathan writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Few people know that Ottringham, a village near Hull in the UK was the home of many of the BBC\u2019s broadcasts during the Second World War, and that its transmissions were received well into the heart of occupied Europe. The site was intended to broadcast both medium and long wave services to counteract propaganda coming from Nazi occupied Europe. Today the site of the old transmitter site is an engineering works and the fields where the antennas stood reveal little of their radio past.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have embedded the\u00a0BBC documentary of\u00a0Ottringham below, but ask that you visit <em><a title=\"Critical Distance\" href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.nl\/2014\/05\/ottringham-calling-netherlands.html\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Distance<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for two others Jonathan has posted (including one from his days at <em>Radio Netherlands<\/em>). Thanks again, Jonathan!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/137066792&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Jonathan Marks, who shares this amazing story of the BBC Ottringham (a.k.a. OSE5)\u00a0broadcast site. Since Ottringham was an active transmitting site during in World War II, it makes for a fitting tribute here on Memorial Day. On his blog, Critical Distance, Jonathan writes: &#8220;Few people know that Ottringham, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,3,288,43],"tags":[2936,2934,2937,246,2935,677,676],"class_list":["post-9748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc-ose5","tag-bbc-ottringham","tag-bbc-wwii","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-ose5","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2xe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13619,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/bbc-radio-4-doc-about-the-life-and-trial-of-william-joyce\/","url_meta":{"origin":9748,"position":0},"title":"BBC Radio 4 doc about the life and trial of William Joyce","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jonathan Marks, who shares this brilliant radio documentary from BBC Radio 4 about the trial of the infamous Lord Haw Haw. 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