pulling out the innards from his old radio and converting it to an Arduino FM radio. His cheap, mains powered radio was pretty bad at tuning. It had trouble locating stations, and tended to drift.

Chris Criddle, John Ford and David Southway are celebrating 10 years since starting their radio show, The Old Gits and Hits.

As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself ... enthusiasts in the United Kingdom who have kept the rogue seaborne radio ...

so very few of them would have the means for listening to my numbers stations. Even for me it’s something I only use for BBC Radio 4 in the car, and to traverse the remainder of the FM dial is ...

The ground floor of the old radio station, which had been there for 40 years, would stay as a commercial space. In March, the landmark building on Stoke Road was under offer, after being put up ...