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The BBC: A People's History by David Hendy

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By an unlucky coincidence, its opening months had been hampered by interference from a radio station in Soviet Latvia that had started broadcasting on the same wavelength. The only solution – for the BBC’s Droitwich transmitter to reduce ...more

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“I was paying for my past by being sentenced to repeat it.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

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“Even the usually restrained John Snagge was aghast at the BBC giving airtime to The Beatles. ‘They are just noises,’ he complained , ‘a sort of primitive noise which is made by, I don’t know, black countries.’18”
― David Hendy, The BBC: A People's History

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“In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one’s mind incapable of definite purpose.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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