"One Deck" Pete

Strange seeds and funky things This week we bought some seeds from the great Real Seeds. They offer a fantastic selection of unusual varieties, from chillies and herbs to edible flowers. The last time we ordered from them was a …

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Autumn colours in north London Thanks to Debby H up in north London for this picture above. “The garden plants may be coming to an end for this year, but I think the colours are lovely in the sunshine. Here’s a pictu…

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phone operators and text about the transmission date, frequency and time.

There'll be another tribute to the "dog and bone" via shortwaveradio.de called Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co. 2 this weekend.

Expect phone related tunes, an interview with a telephone answering machine, the furtherest tin can telephone call ever and the all-time top 10 of missed calls.

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We’ve got your number Cheers to our good music/gardening/radio friend Justin Patrick Moore for sending over this musical recommendation in an ambient downbeat style called The haunted testcard tapes by Alpha Seve…

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Rose thorns as gramophone needles. Isn’t it? Thanks a million to the one and only Rhythm Doctor for playing One Deck Pete’s “Put a sock in it” mix (originally on Imaginary Station’s KTAB) 11.30 mins in on his “Mo…

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(Don’t) build me up buttercup Big thanks to the horticultural team at Thompson & Morgan for their helpful advice following Jesse Yuen’s post the other day (here) about ongoing problems with Bermuda Buttercups (Oxalis …

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Looking down on us all Inspired after seeing Peter B’s sunflowers in the last post here’s one of ours, the giant version off ebay that is still hanging in there. Thanks to some gardening wire and an assortment of g…

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This weekend Imaginary Stations will be bringing you a telephone tribute called Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co.

There's phone related tunes, a live on-air attempt of trying to break the world record of ripping two telephone directories at the same time and an interview with the speaking clock.

Gardening connects us all (Woolwich edition) Thanks a million to an old friend Peter B for getting in touch and for sending some pictures of his allotment in Woolwich. Top picture, as he writes “The sunflowers are holding up well – apar…

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Gardening connects us all (Perth edition) If you remember, our friend and Downbeat on Shortwave collaborator Jesse Yuen (of RTMFM’s North of The River Swan) moved into a new house in Perth last year and is doing some major work on his fron…

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Late night (9pm) saturday night vibes Here’s a couple of electronica bits for the last Saturday of warmish weather before the cold comes in (so it said on the box this evening). The first was played by Steve Barker on the great O…

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Towards the end of the growing season pt 2 Cheers again to Mike & Julia for this continuing look into their back garden with some wonderful dahlias (we think they are all dahlias). Thanks again for the pics Julia, they are great.

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Towards the end of the growing season Cheers to Mike & Julia from near Coventry for sharing a towards the end of season photographic report (fantastic pictures as ever Julia!) This is going to be a two parter as there’s so mu…

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On Saturday 18th October 2025 and Sunday 19th October 2025, Imaginary stations bring you a visual shortwave special called Test Cards on Radio. If you love test cards, you'll love this show.

A message from Kyiv As always, it’s good to hear from Wlad (US7IGN) in Ukraine. If you remember, Wlad was featured in a Radio 4 documentary called Lights Out in an episode called Call Signs (here) which was abou…

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And now the end is near The back garden is in a bit of a mess at the moment as we haven’t been able to go out there as much as we would have liked to of late. There’s a still a couple of things that make us sm…

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Cheers Gerry!

From the remains of the ancient city of Lidl Thanks to our good friend Gerry Hectic who let us know about these cheap bulb packs above that are available in Lidl* now. We like the crocus called “King of the striped” but there are …

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But, do you know where you lad’s going tonight? This morning we found the long version of the 1970’s public information film “Do you know where you lad’s going tonight?”, the shorter version of it used on One Deck Pete’s …

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Do you know where you lad’s going tonight? Here’s a recording of last weekend’s Skybird School of the Air broadcast via Shortwave Gold featuring an education theme. There’s all sorts of school/university/teacher references…

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1970's lecturer in lurid shirt talking about the wonders of algebra.

On Saturday 20th September 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 21st September 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC (new time slot) on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz Imaginary Stations bring you the next module of Skybird School of the Air.

For your Sunday listening pleasure Here’s a wonderful tune found while looking for music for a forthcoming shortwave mix and again it is from the ever-wonderful Mississippi Records here. From the lovely cover of the LP with a …

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Shortwave in a Joe Meek Track? Help Identify These 1966 Sounds Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and buddy, One Deck Pete, who writes with a question. I am not sure if I have sent you this before but this alternative version of a Joe Meek produced single …

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Listen carefully We’ve posted this tune up before thanks to discovering the tune off our good friend across the pond Justin Patrick Moore. It’s by Glenda Collins and called It’s hard to beleive it…

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We had joy, we had fun, we had a season in the sun Last weekend we returned from a week away visiting some great East Sussex locations such as Camber Sands, Eastbourne and Brighton. Weather weren’t too bad (a bit of rain in the morning but us…

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A message from Crete A big shout to Rich R who is on his holidays at the moment in Crete and found this rather nice flower called a sea daffodil (AKA white sand lily, amaryllis, lily of Knossos, beach saffron or beach …

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One for after the bins go out Heard on this week’s Rhythm Doctor’s Waiting Room (here), here’s a wonderful bit of classical ambience. It’s by Steven Legget & Laura Reid and it’s called L…

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This weekend coming (Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th September 2025) Imaginary Stations bring you the first in the series of programmes called Skybird School of the Air.