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Article: I N THE grand old [...].(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Byline: DAVID CHARTERS
IN THE grand old d ays of the young sun and scalped eggs, when corn flakes sighed in their sweet milk, the BBC announcer's voice carried the authority of Empire through the brownwebbed front of the wireless in the kitchen. But occasionally his voice would be lost and then nimble fingers raced to the tuning knob to find him again on that great, crackling dial - somewhere between the Bulgarian Shipping Forecast and tips on bunion-relief the Swedish way, or some such tosh.
It seemed that the whole world was packed into that box in the corner, which introduced each new day. Clocks ticked time in many lands and in Birkenhead men in ...