Alan Pennington

@SimoninSuffolk Don't *actually* remember the 1976 Radio 210 launch with the late Paul Hollingdale (as I was still in Radio City land) but have heard a cassette recording, from when this town had a local commercial radio station... #reading

@alpendx Don't you just hate it when it turns out something you remember was half a century ago...

50 years ago today, 8th March 1976, the new independent local radio station for Reading and the Thames Valley, Radio 210, launched on 1430 kHz, but named after its medium wave wavelength, 210 metres. #OnThisDay

Stand with Cuba! Please take 30 seconds to ask your MP to sign EDM 2739 and say no to Trump's latest attack on the Cuban people. bit.ly/EDM2739 @CubaSolidarity

Automated system coming soon

BBC Radio Lancashire has been broadcasting for 55 years, as of tomorrow, starting as Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971. From 2021 Graham Liver and Gerald Jackson tell the story of the first half century youtu.be/D2Pwd9vHnfo

@seatsixtyone @NLFerries Vegetarian option😂

@NLFerries Scottish cooked breakfast time on the Inverness-London Caledonian Sleeper. Now approaching our Birmingham International stop…

JELLICOE EXPRESS! Orkney to London in under 24h: My morning ferry cancelled, a retimed afternoon ferry to Scrabster is due to sail at 14:00. Slightly iffy plans in place to reach Inverness just in time for tonight’s @CalSleeper, arriving London tomorrow morning. Will I make it?

RTVE news report on closure of many of the Radio Nacional de Espana medium wave transmitters in Spain in the early hours this morning (30 December).

@SimoninSuffolk Walrus & Carpenter pub was previously The Cock - renamed when fish market moved around 1983. Was a pub in 1922 re: pubwiki.co.uk/LondonPubs/StM… (not sure why has current Lewis Carroll name / theme?).

Day 21: 'Billingsgate Fish Market' I think this is my favourite of Donald Macleish's 'Wonderful London' series, there's so much going on. The scene is Lower Thames Street. The Monument to the Great Fire to the right, the tower of St Magnus Martyr on the left. There were porters here doing this job at the time of the Great Fire. 'O City City, I can sometimes hear Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, The pleasant whining of a mandoline And a clatter and a chatter from within Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls Of Magnus Martyr hold Inexplicable splendour of Ionian white and gold.' - TS Eliot, 'The Waste Land', 1922 The building on the extreme right is today the Walrus & Carpenter pub. Was it a pub in Eliot's time? Billingsgate Fish Market moved to the Isle of Dogs in 1982. An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day21

Day 20: 'the many-headed voice which roars behind the touchline every winter Saturday' The crowd at Stamford Bridge, probably the FA Cup Final, played there 1920 to 1922 and which Macleish photographed. An Advent Calendar of London a century ago, from 'Wonderful London', 1925, 📷Donald Macleish. #AdventLondon100 #Day20

@StanworthDJ "Christmas pudding in a glass"

@alpendx Christmas Ale (7.8) - hence the half!

Sweet and heady

@StanworthDJ St Albans?

If I lived here, I'd live here

65' A stoppage here as the referee calls both Managers over. The game may be in jeoprady here due to the conditions. 🟡 2-1 🟣

We are now on air on 4545 KHz . 😃

@SimoninSuffolk @ChrisGreenwayUK Thanks, great video! And station still called Clyde despite Bauer (Hits/Greatest Hits) ownership! 50th birthday was marked on back page of BDXC 'Communication' in December 2023:

@1025Clyde1 Excellent! @ChrisGreenwayUK @alpendx

Clyde 1 is turning 50 & to celebrate here's a look back at some special moments from the first 50 years 😍 bit.ly/Clyde1is50

@GHRBerksHants re @HighwaysEast , M4 now fully open.

The M4 in Berkshire is still closed after a serious crash overnight: hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/…

@ThamesVP @tvprp @RBFRSofficial @SCAS999 The #M4 eastbound between J13 (#A34 #Newbury) and J12 (#A4 #Theale) #Berkshire is now fully open Thanks for being patient

Tonight on @BBCRadio3 @bbcproms there's a celebration of 100 Years of the #ShippingForecast featuring @UlsterOrchestra and hosted by @CLNicholls & @alryanradio Article in this week's @RadioTimes has more bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #BBCProms

Noticed a hazier sky today? It’s not just high cloud drifting in from the west - smoke from Canadian wildfires has travelled thousands of miles and is now affecting skies across Europe 🛰️ A striking reminder of how interconnected our atmosphere is.

The idea that humans will always act rationally, that technology will always work perfectly and that miscalculations will always be avoided is one hell of an assumption….yet that flimsy & flawed notion underpins the whole argument of nuclear deterrence

Tune in if you are in the vicinity of LV18 in Harwich - vinyl music from the 60's and 70's. Live from a radio ship on Medium Wave - just like it used to be! 1575 kHz / 190 metres!!