The Forties: where the story disappears ...

If you pick up one of the many books about the story of British commercial radio in the Nineteen Sixties, you will find that they all begin in the Nineteen Twenties and continue into the Nineteen Thirties and then they disappear into a big fog that descends at the close of the Nineteen Thirties; continues into the Nineteen Forties, and re-emerges at the dawn of the Nineteen Sixties. Then the mythology begins about Arthur Carrington, but to know who he was it is necessary to go back into that fog and find our way into the Nineteen Fifties, and that is what we shall be doing very shortly.