20th Century
The Spratly Islands Incident, 1983
With Hong Kong being in the news it has brought back a memorable incident at the beginning of my working life as a radio news reporter in the former British colony. It’s April 1983. I’d [more…]
Radio
20th Century
Advertising
Advertising seems to be almost everywhere these days, I don’t really object to it in principle as, without it, much of the world as we know it would look very different, but much modern advertising [more…]
Arts
What’s Life Like When You Don’t Pay The BBC TV Tax?
In 2010 I remember watching BBC 1 Live Broadcast on my telly one evening, which was becoming a rarity as I generally wasn’t really enslaved to their scheduled output and spent most of my time [more…]
20th Century
By the Numbers
On Going Postal we have a number of radio hams (holders of the Amateur Radio Broadcast Licence), and lots of others who have radio equipment with that tantalising logo on the tuning dial “SW”. SW [more…]
Arts
Why we need a Second Referendum
The 2016 Referendum was a great success in terms of turnout and enthusiasm. The result, “Leave the EU” has yet to be achieved, it is resisted at every step by Theresa May’s Government, which Parliament [more…]
Arts
The Slow Death of Democracy
The original Athenian concept of democracy was the people were represented in a system of government by consent. People who had what the Americans would call ‘skin in the game’. Today’s head count system would [more…]
Arts
The dad cast
Hello Postallers, Having spent quite a bit of time abusing Bobs hospitality on here, I have decided to make a modest contribution to the world of alternative media by setting up a podcast of my [more…]
Arts
Want To Save £1,100 Like Me?
There’s one thing for certain: the Mainstream Media has lost an awful lot of influence and control over the last few years due to the continued growth of social media, or peer-to-peer information as I [more…]
Arts
Independence
Throughout this year BBC Radio 3 have been celebrating the centenary of Finnish national independence, their declaration of freedom from Russian rule on 6th December 1917. Being Radio 3, Sibelius’ name and music has been [more…]