How the Boxing Day Run has harnessed cutting edge technology to produce the results.
John Creane speaks into portable audio radio transmitting device (ARTD) on the Saltwood village green.

This is what one looks like (I think we need a newer picture. Ed)

The next consideration was how to send the signals, so we needed to use a series of masts.These show the earlier masts. The Boxing Day Run committee decided not approve this carbuncle 2 model on grounds slight obtrusiveness.

This picture shows climbers about to fit a mast on top of a London multi-story carpark. The mast doubles as a flagpole.

We decided to "go green" in Beaconsfield and disguise the antenae as a tree. Doesn't it look real?

You can hardly see this one in Leicester. Just looks like a TV aerial.

Now this one in Derby is fine, unless a lorry knocks it down

Cunning receiving device known as a loadspeaker. Also note the recording devices, yet to be marketed but codenamed MP3's

Avid and excited listener, picking up the list of numbers of runner. Just think, from Saltwood to Nottingham through the aether, using so-called radio waves. What will they think of next?

The final stage is writing the numbers down, using Biro's invention of 1951, the ball point pen.

Listen to the "broadcast" by clicking on he modern radio icon.