On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:54:05 +1100, "Rod Speed"
wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
alan_m wrote:

Some sadist at BBC radio 4 has recorded peals of bells from
various UK
churches and they are often played late at night just as one is
dropping
off to sleep.

I that doesn't get you, R4 joins the World Service which remains
a spoken
service which is fine for dropping off to ... until some schools
"music
and movement" programme wakes you up at about 3am.

It shouldnt be hard to organise a decent system that
turns the radio off when you are asleep. Fades it down
over a few minutes so that doesnt wake you up.

Radios with sleep timers have been available for many years. Radio
cassette recorders used the time taken to play a cassette to turn the
radio off: unfortunately the clunk of the cassette deck stopping
would wake you up.

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Max Demian