I've tuned into Seahaven FM a couple of times: local radio doesn't get much more local than this, except perhaps on CB. I'm all for it. At a time when regional media quite obviously haven't got a clue about the geography of the area they report on (the Argus thinks Seaford is between Brighton and Peacehaven, according to one memorable story) it's nice to have a radio station based a bike ride away.
The broadcast I happened upon involved a long and tedious link about a policy that had been introduced in some flats, restricting residents to a maximum of one dog. Oh well, not exactly a story that the Today programme will be kicking themselves for missing, I thought, but that's what community radio is all about: reflecting the peculiar and sometimes trivial concerns of its local audience.
Turned out the story wasn't from Seaford but Peru. My bemusement was then compounded by the first 30 seconds of William Shatner's version of Common People and soon afterwards my experiment with Seahaven FM was at an end. I may venture back for more, but first I'm going online to see if any stations in Lima are doing stories about the state of the Salts.
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