Leonard Plugge: Difference between revisions

 

==Offshore years==

 

Plugge, a radio enthusiast, would collect the schedules of radio stations he visited during long motoring holidays on the European continent and sell them to the BBC to publish in ''[[Radio Times]]'' and other magazines such as ''[[Wireless World]]''. On one such journey, Plugge asked the café owner at the Café Colonne, located in the coastal village of [[Fécamp]], [[Normandy]], what there was to see in the town. He was told that a young member of the Le Grand family – which owned the town's [[Benedictine]] distillery – had a small radio transmitter behind a piano in his house, and that a local cobbler's business had increased after his name was mentioned during a broadcast.