Radio City QSL card (to acknowledge reception reports).
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Radio City's advertising rate card.
The terms of advertising on Radio City.
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A memo from Dorothy Calvert, sent out to the fort in January 1967. Turn down the echo, lads!
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In 1965, a disc-jockey called Tony Carroll had to be air-lifted off the Radio City fort with acute appendicitis. Cutting from an unknown newspaper.
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City boss Reg Calvert was always coming up with new ideas. This is one of his more bizarre schemes: an offshore station based on a submarine!
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Beauty queen Linda Bass was signed up to become a Radio City DJ. She used her mother's maiden name on air, Peggy Knight.
Another of Reg's grand plans: for a pirate television station. As reported in an American paper.
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A script from the Sunday morning Basildon Request Show. The programme was split into segments with different local firms sponsoring each. For a time there were request shows aimed at other
areas too such as Southend, St.Albans and south-east London, but the Basildon show lasted longest.
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A 1965 letter to a listener from disc-jockey / engineer Paul Elvey.
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A script for the Green Shield Stamps sponsored programme Be Our Guest. Click on the extract, above, to see the entire thing.
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