The BBC: A People's History
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By an unlucky coincidence, its opening months had been hampered by interference from a radio station in Soviet Latvia that had started broadcasting on the same wavelength. The only solution – for the BBC’s Droitwich transmitter to reduce its own power – meant that tuning in was like listening to ‘someone distantly thrashing a birdcage’.