In-depth

Antonia White looks at the BBC in 1939 and 1940

A brief account of its engineering aspects

1928-2017

Exploring the BBC in 1938

TBS editor David Heathcote tells the story of his life in and out of broadcasting

The story of the BBC at war

Granada's first year

1940-2018

A six-part explanation of BBC policy in 1971

Baird's wife recalls life with her husband

1935-2009

Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror's Spotlight on the Future of Television published in 1958

A history of the BBC from 1930

The the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority on how to make television special

The measurement and transmission of time signals by the BBC

ITV in the North East: 1959-2002

ITV is two years old today. The managing directors celebrate, as does Associated-Rediffusion

This new ‘television’ idea is getting popular, but how does it work?

Scottish Television will be starting soon. Are you ready?

Introducing BBC North

Two years on, how well is Europe sticking to the wavelengths agreed at Lucerne?

BBC radio stations are moving. Here’s how to find them

How the new VHF-FM broadcasting system will benefit you – and how to tune in

The BBC gets its response to the Pilkington Committee in early

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

Is the BBC fit for the hard work of covering the Coronation? And does it cost too much?

The BBC looks back at the Coronation earlier in 1937

A guide to shortwave radio from Philips

The background to the innovative ABC pop show of the 1960s

Radio is sweeping Japan, with 1.4m registered listeners

Where does the responsibility lie for presenting violent or permissive material to a wide audience in the home environment?

A detailed technical explanation of how Germany’s landline networking is monitored and supervised

The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter

An in-depth look at the Lucerne Plan for radio wavelengths in Europe in 1933

BBCtv uses more feet of film each year than Hollywood

The roving eye of the television camera can get anywhere these days, bringing sport and pageantry directly to your home

After 10 years, the BBC’s radio networks have started to drift. Here’s how they’re going to be put back on track

You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works

The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?

The story of a live TV play from script to screen

Tony Harding remembers the establishment of Ocean Sound

The BBC’s new programme Breakfast Time has launched and the staff newspaper is full of praise

A look at the pre-history of Gerry Anderson and puppets on television

A look around the BBC Television Centre as the first studio programme goes out and a party is thrown

  I HAVE been asked to set down some thoughts on conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and I am happy and willing to do so since it allows listeners to…

Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House

Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC

RCA tells the story of Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers

Welcome to the future and your new ONdigital digibox

A personal recollection of organising a most ambitious television link-up

Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter

The future is here: television across the Atlantic thanks to a satellite

The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look

Behind the scenes as the news gets to Television House and from there to your home

Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC

Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

How to get your allies to listen to you

Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about

Unusual audience research as the BBC goes direct to the forces in France to ask them what they’d like to hear on the radio