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There was a time when the electricity going off was not an unusual event. It might happen during a storm, after some problem with the local supply or simply for reasons that nobody in the house completely understood. One minute you would be watching television, making a cup of tea or doing something perfectly ordinary, and the next the entire house would suddenly go quiet. For Gen X, a power […]

There are meals, and then there is the Sunday roast. For generations of British families, Sunday lunch has been less about simply putting food on a plate and more about following a ritual that has somehow survived changing fashions, busier lives and the arrival of countless new cuisines. You can change the television, the car, the furniture and even the way you communicate with your family, but there is something […]

Weekend Sport Preview: Jets Host Fire at the Hangar & Big Match Action Across East Berkshire Headline Action: Slough Jets vs Cardiff Fire Slough Ice Arena (The Hangar): The main spotlight tonight falls squarely on the ice as the Slough Jets take on the Cardiff Fire in NIHL 1 South action. Doors open at 5:45 PM with puck drop scheduled for 6:30 PM. The Jets will be aiming to harness […]

Gen X has spent a lifetime adapting to change. We grew up with landlines, cassette tapes, paper maps, encyclopaedias and televisions that had to be switched on manually. We then watched computers arrive in the home, followed by the internet, mobile phones, social media, streaming services and a world where almost everything can be done from a device in your pocket. You would think we would be completely comfortable with […]

There are some things in life that become almost invisible because they are always there. You don't think about them, you don't appreciate them and you certainly don't spend much time wondering how much difference they make. They are simply part of everyday life. Then one day, they're missing. Suddenly, something that you barely noticed before becomes the only thing you can think about. The heating stops working and you […]

There was a time when you couldn't get everything whenever you wanted it. Shops closed. Banks closed. Takeaways stopped delivering. The last bus went home. Television programmes finished for the night. If you wanted something and it wasn't available, you simply had to wait. For Gen X, that wasn't particularly unusual. It was just life. We grew up in a world of opening hours, closing times and the occasional handwritten […]

There was a time when being unavailable was completely normal. If someone wanted to speak to you, they phoned the house and hoped you were in. If you went out, nobody knew exactly where you were. If you were going away for the weekend, you didn't spend the journey sending updates to everyone you knew. You simply went. For Gen X, that probably sounds less like a historical curiosity and […]

Few meals inspire quite as much opinion as breakfast. Lunch can be whatever happens to be available, dinner can change completely from one day to the next, but breakfast seems to come with rules. Everybody has a preference, most people have strong opinions about what belongs on the plate, and somewhere along the line we have all decided that our way of doing breakfast is perfectly reasonable while somebody else's […]

The Slough Jets season is already underway as the reigning league and cup champions started with two wins on the road. On Saturday, 26th September the Jets play their first home game of the season against Cardiff Fire. Atom Radio will once again be giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets to home games this season. Listen on weekdays from 8am when Mark will launch the competition […]