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The midnight bongs of big ben on the radio. it was a bonging success and the following year the first fully accessible time signal, the greenwich time signal, started to be broadcast every hour. pips. it hasnt stopped since. the pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pendulum fitted with electrical contacts. so now you could have accurate greenwich mean time literally anywhere you had a radio. the pips have become legendary, a symbol of bbc radio, and who better to tell us about ...

And the following year the first fully accessible time signal, the greenwich time signal, started to be broadcast every hour. pips. it hasnt stopped since. the pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pendulum fitted with electrical contacts. so now you could have accurate greenwich mean time literally anywhere you had a radio. the pips have become legendary, a symbol of bbc radio, and who better to tell us about them than another legend of bbc radio, tony blackburn? welcome to the...

At the meridian and helped them to calculate their position really precisely. 0ver longjourneys, how could captains keep those clocks accurate to the second? well, to bring in the new year in 1923, the bbc ran an experiment to broadcast the midnight bongs of big ben on the radio. it was a bonging success and the following year the first fully accessible time signal, the greenwich time signal, started to be broadcast every hour. pips. it hasnt stopped since. the pips, as they were known, were gen...

And helped them to calculate the position really precisely. over longjourneys, how could captains keep those clocks accurate to the second? well, to bring in the new year in 1923, the bbc ran an experiment to broadcast the midnight bongs of big ben on the radio. it was a bonging success and the following year the first fully accessible time signal, the greenwich time signal, started to be broadcast every hour. it hasnt stopped since. the pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pen...

Moment of dire danger for the whole world will remind people to sober up about who they put in the oval office. >> your personality and his position is one thing. there is experience, a whole bunch of things that go into the mix of someone i would want as president as elected leader. but we saw truman with mcarthur in korea, we saw jfk in the situation during the cuban missile crisis. there were people saying press the button, and jfk saying, no. the other thing is the total inconstancy, the swi...

Politicized. if there is a way to explore reforming the system in order to deemphasize the political aspect to it, thats a conversation worth having. on the flip side, we shouldnt go too far with this but it just becomes a swinging pendulum depending on which is the opposition party versus which one is in power. so with a tricky place but its worth talking about. >> jon: everybody is saying the court has become politicized but the most political ive seen is ruth bader ginsburgs criticism of then...