BBC Radio 4 on Twitter: "🎛 The big BBC calendar says that on this day in 1934 the awesome Droitwich long-wave radio transmitter was switched on, so here are some amazing pictures
![Old fashioned retro 1950's HMV wooden valve 4 band radio shortwave, long wave, medium wave, scales printed on glass scales over 50 years of dust 1121 Stock Photo - Alamy Old fashioned retro 1950's HMV wooden valve 4 band radio shortwave, long wave, medium wave, scales printed on glass scales over 50 years of dust 1121 Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/PTF951/old-fashioned-retro-1950s-hmv-wooden-valve-4-band-radio-shortwave-long-wave-medium-wave-scales-printed-on-glass-scales-over-50-years-of-dust-1121-PTF951.jpg)
Old fashioned retro 1950's HMV wooden valve 4 band radio shortwave, long wave, medium wave, scales printed on glass scales over 50 years of dust 1121 Stock Photo - Alamy
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