5 January 2017 tbs.pm/10086

A day in the life of an announcer

Some new wireless tests

Reprinted from the BBC Year-Book for 1930, published in November 1929.

• Aubrey Hammond (1894-1940) was born in Folkestone and studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art and at the Academie Julien in Paris. He was later a teacher at the Westminster School of Art.
• William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was born in Finsbury Park to a family of illustrators. His house in Pinner is being converted into a museum of his work.