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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 hasn't 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 tony blackburn show this morn...

And the following year the first fully accessible time signal, the greenwich time signal, started to be broadcast every hour. pips. it hasn't 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 tony blackburn show this morning on tuesday the 9th of december. my thanks tojohn forswinging us u...

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 hasn't stopped since. the pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pendulum fitted with electrical contacts. so now you could have accurate green...

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 hasn't 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...

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 swinging pendulum back and forth between sucking up to these people, that i'm going to nuke them, and h...