the bbc used to have LW band transmitters too scattered all over the 
place...this is on the band below the Am broadcast band.  Those transmitters 
could often be heard in north america late at night as they were powerful 
and had very large antenna systems that made them copiable even this far 
away.
I seem to recall they might have one LW transmitter left in the UK, but it's 
relatively low power and more of a nod to the traddition more than something 
useful to SWL's.
When I first got into ham radio back over 20 years ago, I had an FT101E with 
a 12 foot piece of wire strung across the ceiling of my bedroom.  I could 
pickup voice of america on several different frequencies back then and it 
was always fun to listen to that along with other big gun shortwave stations 
that you could hear with a wet noodle.
Gone are the good old days of 1 megawatt or 1.5 megawatt broadcast stations.
And, gone are the days when you could get a 50 foot roll of 14 gage bear 
high purity copper wire for 5 bucks too haha.
I must have gone through 10 of those in the first few years making antennas 
and loading coils and all sorts of cool stuff.
Now, your lucky if you can find 14 gage bear copper, and if you can, it's in 
10 foot rolls and it'll cost allot more than 5 bucks.
They claim our copper resources are beginning to run short, that is, there 
is only a couple hundred years left at current consumption rates based on 
the deposits they know about.
I figure if we actually get serious about recycling copper we'll find that 
we have allot more of it available to us lol.

73
Colin, V A6BKX