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9 November 2025

  • curprev 11:3011:30, 9 November 2025 IonaNewberry talk contribs 2,196 bytes +2,196 Created page with "<br>The Day Westminster Debated Static and Glow On paper it reads like satire: while Europe braced for Hitler’s advance, Parliament was wrestling with the problem of neon interfering with radios. the outspoken Mr. Gallacher, stood up and asked the Postmaster-General a peculiar but pressing question. Was Britain’s brand-new glow tech ruining the nation’s favourite pastime – radio? The answer was astonishing for the time: around a thousand complaints in 1938 alone...."