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Now on BBC World Service, Nick Rankin visits a rather unusual museum

in suburban South London to explore the wireless world of Jerry Wells.

This is a programme about a man from another age.

Yeah, we've got vaults there.

It's a portrait of a craftsman with an obsession for radio.

We're getting a reading.

Jerry Wells has spent his life making him repairing wireless sets.

Yes, we should get a crackle, we should be getting noise.

His memories are the music and sounds of a bygone era.

The signs of life.

I've finally mails on.

I've heard Michael Winner should be very steep and he suggests that I'm too

his neck at low tide.

Digital radio, I can't listen to it.

The sound is thin, weak and anemic.

It hasn't got a warm, round sound, but you can hear here on any of the apparatus.

I miss some lovely examples of what that nice, warm, round sound is like.

When you wait for my favourite songs

When they've laid out single long, it made me smile.

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