For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Goodbye 252 by Paul Hughes above.
I can vividly remember driving along the roads of Wiltshire, playing with the tuning button in my little Honda for something to listen to other than pop tunes.
I think I mistakenly flicked from FM to LW and scanning through, came across something familiar and delightful.
Irish voices. Long wave 252, the home of RTÉ Radio to listeners in Britain and beyond since 2002 when RTE acquired the transmitter site from the commercial station Atlantic, beaming out over 1200 miles...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
