BBC World Service still alive and well, and can even be picked up in England when the wind is in the right direction. Just a shame some of the local stations abroard had to close down (Aden etc.). For mariners it was, and still is, our link with home, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Hadley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] SLBC Re: RadioandtheRaj:broadcastinginBritish India. > Oh yes, I remember the World Service very well, Harshoo.......damn I feel > old!! :)) Cheers, Lynne. :)) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:04 PM > Subject: Re: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] SLBC Re: Radio > andtheRaj:broadcastinginBritish India. > > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Hadley" >> We used to pick up many overseas broadcasts on our old shortwave >> set......hours of fun listening to the music from different countries. >> :)) >> Cheers, Lynne. :)) >> ======================= >> >> And there was a time when anything and everything that was said >> on Auntie Beeb's news programmes was considered gospel truth >> by most Indians. Our government-owned AIR or All India Radio was >> infamous for its censored, one-sided, selective coverage and so, >> for independent confirmation or first-hand information, BBC's World >> Service was the only reliable source, well within the reach of everybody >> using short-wave receivers. >> >> There is a story - may be quite true, may be apocryphal, and I guess, >> going back to the 1950s - which tells how a regular Calcuttawallah >> Englishman was taken aback while driving to the airport, when the >> cabbie suddenly made a detour, and instead of using the direct road >> on which the passenger had travelled a hundred times, drove his taxi >> through lanes and alleys. ''What's the matter'', he asked, ''do you think >> I am new to this city? This isn't the way to the airport.'' The cabbie >> calmly replied, ''No worries, sahib, I am not trying to cheat you.'' He >> pointed to a portable transistor radio in the glove compartment, and >> said, ''Just before you came in, I was listening to BBC news and it >> said just half an hour ago rioting broke out near 'Maidan'. I don't want >> to be caught up in that, so I am using this long-cut. I won't go that way >> again till the BBC tells me it's safe.'' >> >> --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.814 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2848 - Release Date: 05/01/10 19:27:00