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We still want your postcode!

Eddie Mair | 16:23 UK time, Tuesday, 11 December 2007

This week, on our sister programme PM we're launching a brand new experiment.

All you need to know is the postcode you're in when you listen to PM. If you're travelling when we're on the air, we'll happily accept your best guess as to your postcode, or the rough location. If you're overseas, try the local postcode or zipcode.

Then just email your postcode to this address: ipm@bbc.co.uk Please put POSTCODE in the subject line.
Don't worry if you don't have email. You can pop it in the post too. Just send a letter or postcard with the postcode you're in when you listen to PM, to this address: iPM, Room G601, BBC News Centre, London W12 7RJ.

In PM tonight, Chris - Mr Blog - pointed you towards several handy mashups: Try this, this and this!

Comments

  1. At 05:58 PM on 11 Dec 2007, Susie Parker wrote:

    can't make post code email address work although using cut & paste method from your site!
    Help... DG8 7JB

  2. At 06:21 PM on 11 Dec 2007, W Smith wrote:

    postcode to this address: ipm@bbc.co.uk. ipm@bbc.co.uk.!!! NEVER put an email address next to punctuation. Copy and paste carelessness or ignorance will ensure many emails fail as they will include the punctuation and be returned to sender.

  3. At 06:48 PM on 11 Dec 2007, Peter Cornthwaite wrote:

    I listen to Radio 4 everynight travelling from my work in Gloucester to home near Witney in Oxon. Keeps me sane but I wish Eddie Mair was not so confrontational and rude at times - when that happens I just switch over to Classic FM to chill out and to lower the blood pressure!

  4. At 08:03 PM on 11 Dec 2007, Mark Scott wrote:

    As I most often listen to PM while driving, in my case my home postcode won't actually indicate where I was while listening. Indeed I expect my journey takes me through dozens of postcodes.

    How about you ask us for our GPS tracks, that you can mashup into a map to show which routes are most popular with your listeners?

  5. At 08:21 PM on 11 Dec 2007, Adele May wrote:

    ^
    are you kidding? if not then try listening to the Today Programme. i'm not the happiest bunny in the morning but have had to stop listening to news before 9am. it really is the worst start to the day. i miss Eddie on BH, but at least we get to hear more of his cheek during the week :)

  6. At 04:02 AM on 12 Dec 2007, Suzy Jackson wrote:

    Wow. I've brought my children up to believe that my radio only receives radio 4 _they're now old enough to know better, but also to know not to argue about it. (Sorry about the grammar.) May I ask, will my ordinary, rather ancient radio still be OK to use when everything goes digital? I'd like to ask my kids but I'm afraid they'd sneer ...

    Lurve Eddie's accent and JH is my hero (all the boys go swimmy over Charlotte's voice).

    Many thanks

    Suzy

  7. At 09:48 AM on 12 Dec 2007, Zachary wrote:

    Hey, Eddie dude - I don't have a postcode. I live in a Campervan. I'll send you the registration number instead.

  8. At 10:07 AM on 12 Dec 2007, whisht wrote:

    In terms of mashups I always liked this one:

    Chicago Crime map

    I've 'deep linked' into it to give you the idea straight away.
    handy if you're thinking of being out and about of an evening... or buying somewhere...

  9. At 12:19 AM on 13 Dec 2007, Alex Willmer wrote:

    While you are submitting your postcode to iPM, please add your postcode to http://www.npemap.org.uk/ and see how your home town looked in the 1940s.

    NPE Maps has detailed, out of copyright maps from the 1940s. They are collecting postcodes to make Free satnav software and mapping communities such as http://openstreetmap.org possible. They aren't collecting any personal details - no names, no house numbers - just postcodes.

  10. At 06:45 PM on 13 Dec 2007, Sid Cumberland wrote:

    Another interesting site is

    http://www.geograph.org.uk/

    - map refs rather than postcodes - I wonder if iPM could link to this?

    Sid

  11. At 02:10 PM on 14 Dec 2007, rob wrote:

    can the BBC occasionally appoint someone who isn't from the Celtic fringe?

  12. At 06:07 PM on 21 Dec 2007, Mark shorey wrote:

    88201 Roswell New Mexico USA.
    On-line Listener.

    I would gladly pay an overseas on-line membership fee of £10 for a yearly subscription to BBC Radio 4.

    Letter from the Boondocks.

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