You guys have given me a few blasts from the past. I never did work out how POW's got the 'electronic' parts for a radio. "Foxhole Radio" explains all. Thanks Mark.

Bob, we called the 'lever' the "act's whisker". Hmm... wonder if that's where the ex[ression "That's the cat's whiskers" (really good) came from? BYW, there was also the green "cat's eye" tuning indiator valve too.

Bert, 'Much Binding..' was one of my favourites too - "Another brandy, lime & soda, waiter, please". Found some 300 odd sites mentionedthe programme. Best was 1950s British Radio Nostalgia. It had the history of heaps of other shows of the time.

Tweed, you are dead right. Hot music came out of those old radios!It must have been the temperature of the valves .. ;)

Cheers - Sam