The Dorset Knob » Dorset http://thedorsetknob.co.uk Random musings Sat, 12 May 2012 18:44:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Western Gazette and The Rampisham Transmitter http://thedorsetknob.co.uk/2011/08/the-western-gazette-and-the-rampisham-transmitter/ http://thedorsetknob.co.uk/2011/08/the-western-gazette-and-the-rampisham-transmitter/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:13:35 +0000 Knobby http://thedorsetknob.co.uk/?p=186

Read More…]]> The Rampisham radio mast closure story makes the pages of the Western Gazette this week, but they seem to think it’s a television transmitter! Fairly typical of the standard of journalism in some local papers I’m afraid.

They also manage to somehow link the story to The Dorset Broadcasting Action Groups campaign for a BBC Radio Dorset. I’m struggling to see how the closure of a huge short wave transmitting station broadcasting internationally can be linked to setting up a local FM station.


]]> http://thedorsetknob.co.uk/2011/08/the-western-gazette-and-the-rampisham-transmitter/feed/ 0 An animated William Barnes reads his poem http://thedorsetknob.co.uk/2010/06/an-animated-william-barnes-reads-his-poem/ http://thedorsetknob.co.uk/2010/06/an-animated-william-barnes-reads-his-poem/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:21:49 +0000 Knobby http://thedorsetknob.co.uk/?p=14 I came across this on YouTube.  Jim Clark takes pictures of long dead poets and audio recordings of their poems and marries them together to give the impression of the poet reading his poem.

Here he presents Dorset’s very own William Barnes performing The Humstrum.

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