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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I don't think the service was 24 hours.......and if I remember rightly(if not I am sure that I will be corrected)there were different sections to listen to.
The Light program was music, dramas general entertainment.
The programs that I rememeber listening to were Dick Barton, The Goons, Round the Horn, Women's Hour was at 2pm each weekday...there was Workers Playtime too. This was broadcast from the canteens of large factories. There was a childrens music program on each Saturday Morning...was it Uncle Sandy.

I remember my Grandad listening to more serious programs.....the News, sporting events....you dare not speak during the commentary for the cricket.

Like you I was born in 1947 and Radio was a large part of our evening entertainment.
I remember sitting round the fire listening to the wireless.
Ours was A Relayvison radio, with four stations......3 and 4 were the heavy stuff...classical music etc. (We got a small 9 inch Bush TV to watch the Coronation on.)
My Grandma had a radio that you tuned in to different stations......it fascinated me.
Where was Hilversum? I used to see it on the dial and wonder where it was.

I am not sure my post will help you much, but it surely loosened some brainstones for me

I remember that Hilversum station on our radio when I was little, the first one we had was battery operated, I used to have to take the battery (a glass jar with a carbon rod down one corner & a handle on top) to a shop on Nuttal St to get it charged, it was quite heavy for me, and one time I clutched it to my chest to make it easier to carry, the acid burnt a hole in my shirt, that got me a thick ear. The next radio was a lot bigger and had umpty dozen valves in it, that had push buttons for some stations and a great needle in the middle for tuning. Hilversum was a foriegn station like Luxemburg, might have been Norway, Denmark or sumwer like that. I still have that radio its been stuck up in the attic for nigh on 40 years, it should still work, it was working before I put it there.