20 January 2023
The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60
24 December 2022
The ghosts of Christmases past: 10 covers from Christmas editions of Fusion, the Rediffusion staff newsletter
1 November 2022
Pre-launch print advertisements for S4C
10 July 2022
Souvenir leaflet for a comedy panel game at the Dome in Brighton in 1961
10 July 2022
Stewart White brings Central Television on the air in 1982 for schools programmes
9 July 2022
“Hello, Fenella? I shan’t be able to get back for dinner. A sort of war’s broken out.”
28 May 2022
The Free Radio Association swings into action against Labour in 1970
27 May 2022
A rough scan of the introductory booklet for the new BBC Four issued a few weeks before launch
24 May 2022
Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK
3 August 2021
Do S4C have a copy of their own opening night? Some suggest they don’t. We do.
25 December 2017
On retransmission stations of the internet, this is the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
16 October 2017
On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV
29 September 2017
Music Through Midnight with David Hamilton sees the BBC Light Programme off into history
14 August 2017
Radio Caroline chooses not to sink in the face of the Marine Offences Act
16 June 2017
A demo package of jingles for Radio Forth, NorthSound and Moray Firth Radio from 1981
2 June 2017
New local radio station CBC in Cardiff prepares to come on air in 1980
12 May 2017
Ray Moore opens and closes the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest for BBC Radio 2
28 April 2017
Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the establishment of the BBC Monitoring Service during World War II
20 April 2017
Ludovic Kennedy on the botched launched of BBC-2
14 April 2017
Jingles are not just for radio, as Tuesday Productions show in this 1980s sampler
31 March 2017
Listen to Radio 1 and Radio 2’s introductory programme from the evening of 30 September 1967
24 March 2017
In 1981 this spin-off from Tomorrow’s World tries to divine which 12″ videodisc will win the battle
17 March 2017
Bob Godfrey’s 1963 surreal mix of advertising tropes
10 March 2017
John Walters goes to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1986
3 March 2017
BBC Newsnight on the Peacock Report in 1986, which recommends ITV franchises go to the highest bidder and BBC Radios 1 and 2 are sold