In early February 1922, from a small ex-army hut in a field just outside the Essex village of Writtle near Chelmsford. A small team or pioneering wireless engineers working for the Marconi company established Britain's first regular radio broadcasting station. In it's short year long history, the station using the call sign of 2MT, or as it soon became known to its many fans - Two Emma Toch, became a broadcasting legend. For led by Captain P.P.Eckersley, its engineers became it's on-air staff who in that short year on air, developed and establsihed most of the ground rules for broadcasting as we know it today. It's small wonder that apart from one engineer who stayed with Marconi, The others all went on to join and help establish the early BBC, which came on the air, almost a year later.
By Tim Wander & Dennis Rookard
Cast List:
Peter Eckersley... John Glasscock
Noel Ashbridge... Steve Hales
Hatty Kirke... Tony Hine
Rolls T.B. Wynn... Keith Flack
Basil Maclarty... Andy Morton
Edward Trump... Maik Hogge
Elizabeth Beeson... Angela Neville
Narrator... David Schacat
Other parts played by Ben Williamson & Edmund Hine
Production, Direction and Audio Realisation by Dennis Rookard
The theme music is taken in part from the work, Fisher's Boarding House by Percy Grainger and performed by the BBC Philharmonic and available on Chandos CD CHAN 9493
Author : Barry Letts
Narrated By : Full Cast Performance
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 2 hours 25 minutes
Categories : Sci-Fi Drama Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
Price : $18.49
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Author : William Shakespeare
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 3 hours
Categories : Classic Literature Dramatizations Shakespeare Drama British
Price : $22.25
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Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated By : Derek Jacobi
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 4 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Detective Detective Crime Drama
Price : $24.49
The great detective's melancholy mood is lifted by the arrival of attractive Mary Morstan at 221B, Baker Street... More...
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Author : Francis Durbridge
Narrated By : Various
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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Categories : Drama British Thriller Detective
Price : $24.49
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Author : Jerry Robbins
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Duration : 27 minutes
Categories : American Old Time Radio Drama Westerns
Price : $1.50
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Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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