Tag: BBC Radio Cornwall

The Romance of Radio

Do you remember Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles? There’s wisdom in them there lyrics. Technology’s fab and groovy, but sometimes it lacks romance. When I was a lad we would sometimes go to a caravan park in Essex (a trailer park for the weekend, for our transatlantic cousins). I used to lie awake …

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John Hanley – Bringing History to Life

Everyone has heard one of those apocryphal stories about going on holiday, on the far side of the world, only to meet someone from your home town. My version of that was a happy coincidence, encountering author John Hanley online and then finding out he is based in Truro – just up the road from …

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