At 7pm on Valentine’s Day February 14th 1922, Britain’s first scheduled radio station 2MT first began broadcasting every Tuesday night from the small Essex town of Writtle. The station was the experimenter arm of the Marconi Company with Captain Peter Eckersley in charge. Each night the station would go on air at 7pm with Marconi’s publicity man in London, Arthur Burrows, despatching gramophone records to be played and artistes to perform live.
“World history is a battle between two forms of love: love of self to the point of destroying the world and love of others, to the point of renouncing oneself.” - St Augustine
This truth goes a long way to explaining the tragedy, which unfolded as a consequence of the signing of the Treaty of 1921.
