Your rural retreat would be less enjoyable without the midday news, and your daily companion, the ever popular radio serial Blue Hills. This had a sequel in Midday with Ray Martin, which also earned a captive audience, this time on TV.  When your area did not have mains power, AWA still rose to the challenge .read more.

In these early days, before transistors, valves were the established standard, they produce a faint glow as their 1.5-volt filament battery supplies the heating current from the big heavy duty A battery shown between the two forty five volt B  batteries in the picture above. This and the two 45Volt B batteries, made up the almost safe 90 Volts needed to set your desired level of sound volume.