Abstract
Woofferton radio station, Herefordshire, England, today has been eclipsed in size by a number of SW stations in Europe: Rampisham in England, Issoudun in France and Wertachtal in Germany. Nevertheless, its different roles during World War II, its role during the Berlin blockade and the subsequent Cold War entitle it to a place in the history of SW propaganda broadcasting. Its origins date back to 1942, a dark period of Britain's history when it was struggling in every theatre of war and the possibility of total defeat loomed high. At this time the Government approved budgets for the greatest expansion ever in Britain's propaganda broadcasting capability: the building of a new generation of high-power SW transmitting stations. The plan called for the building of three powerful radio station sites: Skelton A and B in Cumberland, Rampisham in Dorset, and Woofferton in Herefordshire. This grand expansion scheme was designed to increase the BBC's external services to a total of 37 high-power SW transmitters by 1943, in contrast to the network that existed in 1942 -eight medium-power transmitters at Daventry of a pre-war, now aging, design.
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