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#098 Ireland's First Radio Station... and the BBC News theme album
14 August 1923: Ireland's first licensed radio station takes to the air...
Yes for one episode, The British Broadcasting Century leaves Britain to become The Irish Broadcasting Century. Well how could we not bring you the tale of Marconi setting up a (legal) radio station at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, to broadcast to the Horse Show... only to be closed down a few days later because the government panicked - and especially in the company of the Irish broadcasting historian Eddie Bohan.
After Ireland in 1923, we return to Britain in the present-day for an interview with…
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