It brought everything from the shipping forecast to The Archers to listeners in remote areas – but BBC radio’s long wave is no more.
The broadcasting service was switched off at 1am yesterday, playing out with the National Anthem.
The first BBC long wave transmissions were in 1925, going fully national when a state-of-the-art station was set up at Droitwich in 1934.
As well as carrying BBC programmes, its strong signal was used during the Second World War to transmit coded messages to the French Resistance and play a key part in co-ordinating D-Day.
Radio 4, which was the last long wave radio station
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