Legendary shortwave station Radiofax is back - as a website!

Andy Burnham writes:
I'm very pleased to launch the new Radiofax web site, complete with audio downloads. Being Radiofax we have tried to move with the times so are offering downloads in an audio blog/podcast style.

Along with Trevor Brooks, I was the producer of the original Sparks programmes and each week (or three) I will be updating the site with programme extracts from the extensive archives we have. We will also be adding some music programmes. For speech extracts, I'm selecting items of historical/anorak interest and there are some items that haven't really dated from when they were originally broadcast in 1992. All have been remastered (as they say) from the original tapes so are of pretty high quality.

For example, amongst the first offerings we have:

• Detailed comment on the Crossed Field Antenna (oh how topical!). I'm afraid we had this debunked back in 1992 and have not seen anything in the intervening 14 years to change our minds.

• The Churchill Tapes, are they genuine? (about the controversy over the wartime speeches)

• An exclusive 90 minute music programme from Andy Bradgate of Radio Caroline fame, where he had a chance to play some of his favourite music.

The fantastic response from listeners, the way they cared about the speech based output and the devotion of housebound, disabled and blind listeners in particular, led founder and sponsor Trevor Brook to feel the project to have been one of the most worthwhile things he has ever done.

There is lots more to come so please bookmark us or latch onto our RSS feed.

Source: Radiofax via Mike Barraclough