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Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher - A wild journey to the outer limits of radio cryptography and espionage as Simon Fanshawe enters the clandestine world of shortwave Number stations. Are they the mad aural daubings of pirate DJs, an extraordinary and elaborate hoax or are they, as many believe, coded messages broadcast by intelligence services and... governments to their agents in the field? See the proof here. Did you miss the programme on Radio 4 about the 'good old days' of the Short Wave Jamming stations? This was originally broadcast on 15th August 2006 and repeated on 18th April 2007 Political Interference - Roger Bolton recalls a fierce but invisible battle waged in the skies above Eastern Europe for almost forty years. Soviet bloc radio engineers tried to jam radio signals coming from the West while their Western counterparts did their utmost to get the signals through. Roger talks to engineers from both sides and hears what happened when the jamming finally stopped. Have you ever wondered if the National Archives will have problems with the government's change to using email instead of the old paper methods? This was broadcast on 4th July 2010 on Radio 4's Broadcasting House Notes in the margin - I have purchased quite a few of the archives from the Offshore Radio days of the 60's from the National Archives . The most interesting feature is the number of notes that people have marked in the margins as well as their comments and opinions. I have wondered, for a long time, how the change to email and the use of "Post-Its" will affect the material that people see in 30 (or more) years time. Mark Dunton explains. How can we have BBC Radio 4 without Charlotte Green? Tribute from CBC Radio One "As it Happens" - Farewell (and a giggle) to BBC presenter Charlotte Green ...... BBC presenter Charlotte Green will be leaving the station at the end of the year. She's taking voluntary redundancy because of cuts. Ms. Green has been a regular on Radio 4 since the nineteen-seventies. She's famous for her husky, ...Read More