 Its name – after the popular foliage houseplant – was inspired by the comic song "The Biggest Aspidistra in the World", best known as sung by Gracie Fields.The transmitter was installed in 1942 at a purpose-built site near Crowborough in southeast England.This was equipped with other medium wave and short wave transmitters, which also used the Aspidistra name, being known as ASPI 2, ASPI 3, ASPI 4, etc.