BBC Radio 4 Long Wave has been switched off, prompting calls to protect the Wychbold transmitter masts. The two 700ft structures near Droitwich carried the BBC’s long wave signal across the UK for decades and are visible from the M5. As expected, the 198 LW service was being turned off this weekend, and it ended programming after the shipping forecast and the national anthem last night. Local history experts and the Twentieth Century Society hav…
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