Philip Luck

I am an “Outstation Veteran” having worked as a transmitter engineer at Gawcott and Potsgrove stations broadcasting foreign language programmes to Europe. The most famous was Soldaten Calais, a German Forces programme consisting of news, jazz music and morale-sapping information from a studio at Milton Bryan controlled by Mr Sefton Delmer, and it even had its own Forces Sweetheart named Vicki. It ran for 16 hours per day and was fed to the transmitters by landline. It closed on April 30th 1945 but the last two days were recorded by Mr Harold Robins (with permission from Mr Delmer) and kept for 37 years in his loft and then given to The Imperial War Museum Sound Archive Dept from whom I obtained a copy on six cassettes and presented them to BP Archive Dept. This subject is also covered in a DVD sold in your shop and maybe by Mr & Mrs Rixon entitled The Secret Wireless War.

If anyone is interested, I would be happy to discuss those far-off days with them – we waited many years for the expiry of the Official Secrets Act and I think that I am the only survivor of our group. One of the transmitter buildings is still used as a warehouse at Potsgrove and the studio complex at Milton Bryan is now used by the local Scout troop. Both stand on land owned by Woburn Estates.