Peter Eckersley (engineer)

[2] He Joined Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co as the Head of the Experimental Section, Aircraft Department where he designed the Croydon Airport ground station transmitter.

[2] By 1920 Eckersley had become an announcer, broadcaster (he recited poetry and sang songs) and engineer of 2MT, the first licensed radio station in Britain, located in Writtle, near Chelmsford, Essex, England, where Guglielmo Marconi had built his wireless telegraphy factories.

In 1923 Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes headed a committee to review this arrangement, which concluded that the GPO should stop licensing the British Broadcasting Company.

Eckersley, MIEE was made 'Life Vice-President' of the Radio Society of Great Britain, along with Major Basil Binyon (a BBC director).

[5] Top-level conferences were held and even the Archbishop of Canterbury was consulted[6] but Eckersley was not sacked immediately as he undertook to end the affair with Dolly Clark and return to his wife.

Dolly was pro-Nazi in her politics,[8] an admirer of Adolf Hitler, a friend of William Joyce and Unity Mitford and a member of Arnold Leese's Imperial Fascist League.

From November 1939 the transmitter he had arranged to put in place at Osterloog transmitting station, was used for William Joyce's broadcasts to Britain and Europe.

[6] For a time Eckersley was engaged in working to build a broadcasting station based in continental Europe which could be received in the United Kingdom.

Captain Leonard Plugge, who became a Member of Parliament, also set about building his own International Broadcasting Company by leasing transmitters in France and other countries to beam commercial radio into Britain.

Rather than relying upon a receiving set licensed by the General Post Office, he began to wire parts of England for an early form of cable radio but was stopped by the intervention of the GPO.