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Rebecca Front's wireless memories

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Paul Sargeant Paul Sargeant | 15:13 UK time, Thursday, 18 February 2010

What object in your house, or your parents' house, or your grandparents' house could tell a history of life in the 20th century? For Rebecca Front, actress and star of The Thick of It, it's the radio that sat in her grandparents' house.

Radio, for the generation above mine, was your route into the outside world. It was as significant as tv is to us now.

Watch the video to discover the final surprise that her grandmother's wireless had in store for the family.

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