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That's great that you've added to their collection. What a marvellous place it is.

That doesn't surprise me, knowing Neil - he's a goodun!

Oh wonderful - very glad to hear it. All best to your marvellous venue!

Oh cheer up. A) This is about history. You don’t have to agree with it. You don’t watch a war film and need to comment that you didn’t agree with those we were fighting. This isn’t about you. B) Religion’s great - you’ve just not found the right one. C) Bless you. At least you said you’re sorry.

Depends on the radio set. The two types: 1) crystal set - hardly any power, picked up stations that were dozens of miles away, though reports of 100s of miles if the weather conditions were good (and things like mountains/water not blocking the signal). 2) valve radio sets - more powerful, with a range of 100s or even 1000s of miles. So with that you could have choice, between different radio stations. I'll try to find a more accurate answer, but those are the broad strokes.

@@PaulKerensaTV That's interesting, because it would be certainly hard to intercept that kind of broadcast. Although whenever there's a depiction of a WW1 signals transmission they usually have to run wire to wire. Now I'm just assuming Morse code was run in via radio waves.

@@elimaurer9491 There's huge development year on year in the early days. Where WW1 had wire, mostly Morse, and limited range, over the early 1920s it grew and grew in range and quality. The first BBC broadcaster reckoned they reached approx 20-30 miles. But some earlier broadcasts reached 100s of miles. Power of transmitter a big factor too.

@@PaulKerensaTVIt's almost analogous to to booteth technology of this century. If the Ally forces put all their r&d into amplification and reception, they could have easily broadcast enemy troop formation - taking the edge in warfare intelligence.

Hi, thanks Robert - good question. Generally the full list would be best seen via podfollow.com/bbcentury - where all the episodes are hosted. They're auto-posted here to UA-cam then. But if you like to use UA-cam for such things, I should really put together a UA-cam playlist with the episodes in the right order, shouldn't I? That makes sense. I've made a note to do that over the next couple of days, so bear with me, I'll put it together, and post the link here. Thanks!

Hi Robert. Apologies it's taken so long. I've now assembled all the podcasts on UA-cam (and associated videos) on this playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLhgAaOPQRHGYLRum4E0LRwY24GwOG7UWP.html&si=mpQceNBqF8D97zEh - There are some missing episodes, that I hope to upload to UA-cam ASAP.

Ooh great point! In which case we DEFINITELY made it under 90 minutes. Hurrah!

Thanks! I fully intend to. A lot of stories yet to tell. All episodes at bbcentury.podbean.com

Thanks Andrew - great to chat with him, and it'll make a nice episode in a few months' time when united with Prof Tim Crook's interview about Twigg, and some excerpts from The Truth About Father Christmas short story. A fun thread to pull on!

Fine words! Glad the nostalgic ride has been worthwhile. Let's keep on looking back. It was good then.

@@PaulKerensaTV looking back is the only way forward.

You're very kind re the podcast - thanks! I wouldn't worry about lack of comments - I haven't pushed the podcast much on UA-cam. To be honest the podcast platform I use automatically turns it into a UA-cam video and uploads it for me. So I think some listen to the podcast via UA-cam, but many listen via podcast apps on phones, or via other websites (eg. podfollow.com/bbcentury) - the nature of podcasting bizarrely means it gets sent out to all these different platforms (inc UA-cam), but a comment here doesn't show up there, so I'm delighted you've found it and engaged with it. Hopefully more will find it here (or elsewhere) in days/months/years to come. We're going nowhere and planning a LOT more episodes. Thanks!

Ah wonderful! If you find any new nuggets of interest, let me know and I'll put them on the podcast!

Wow - I knew the animal park was near the old place - I didn't know about the heat and the reptile house! And good to know re Montacute - will add that to my wishlist.

@@PaulKerensaTV Hi, Paul. The Montacute Radio & Toy Museum website is still available, but there have been no additions to the blog since 2019. A would-be visitor on Facebook had tried phoning them with no success and when he visited Montacute found it closed, On enquiring at the "Kings Arms" pub in the village, he was told that it had been closed since the first lockdown. The museum is housed in what was a shop belonging to the late Dennis Greenham. He was in business in the 1930s as a cycle dealer and repair shop and like many similar businesses, branched into wireless and later TV. I worked for him for a couple of years in the early '70s, mainly as a TV field engineer and sometimes helping out with white goods deliveries or assisting the electricians. The museum was set up by his daughter and her partner, so when I visited many years ago we were able to reminisce about people we had known. The TV dealer in nearby Stoke-sub Hamdon also ran the weekly village cinema, while the one down the road at Martock was also a cycle-dealer and joint proprietor of the local coach company..

@@blacksmock445 Wonderful! I've read about cycle shops being the place you'd go to recharge your radios before homes were wired with electric. Great to hear of how it all linked up in community life. Thanks for those details.

@@PaulKerensaTV By the time I worked for Dennis he had opened a larger showroom in the small village of Norton-sub-Hamdon. There was an old "Tungar" mercury-arc rectifier unit in an outbuilding which was probably how he charged the 2-volt accumulators. The father of one of my friends in Martock also charged these for 6d a time, but , as he didn't drive, delivered and collected them suspended from the handlebars of his bike. Most of these glass accumulators has slip-on handles which fitted around the top of the glass case. My father's ironmongers shop was also an agent for Ever-Ready batteries and he ordered a few radio batteries for selected customers. Combined 90-volt and 1.5-volt batteries were popular in the 1950s and the 1.5-volt part always ran down while there was still some life left in the HT side. Our customers obligingly returned their old batteries so we could use them as HT batteries in our old radios, which in theory required 120-volts. Two old Ever-Ready B90s in series usually lasted for quite a time.

Ha! “Convid”. If you’re going to discourage people from using life-saving tests, at least spell the world’s most famous virus correctly. Merry Christmas.

@@PaulKerensaTV I think she’s trying to be clever by saying it’s a con. Fools like this haven’t watched members of their family die from it though. Some of us have. It’s not a con. Keep testing guys. This person is beneath your contempt.

@@skialexander26 Ah I see. Thank you. The terrible opinion made me think it was also terrible spelling.

@@PaulKerensaTV I did spell it correctly.

Joyless Emerson (sorry, did I mis-spell that?) Where on earth do you get your information? For goodness sake go to reliable news media and government sources, and don't believe every nutter on social media who tells you that the 275M cases and 5.4M deaths worldwide are some sort of wild conspiracy theory that only your echo chamber has worked out. If you are going to call Covid a myth, talk to those who have lost loved ones to this terrible and very real disease, or who are suffering from long Covid. Don't insult them. Grow up please.