12 June 2023
At two o’clock, five days a week, the BBC takes Britain’s housewives out of their kitchens
12 December 2022
A look behind the scenes of the Light Programme’s major news bulletin
14 November 2022
A run-through of the history of the BBC World Service
8 September 2022
Richard Dimbleby’s commentary on the Lying-in-State of King George VI in 1952
7 September 2022
The wireless is increasingly being used for news broadcasts in the UK, but elsewhere the story is different
16 June 2022
The 50th anniversary of the BBC Empire Service is marked by a look at how it was established
10 June 2022
Behind the scenes of a vital but barely known part of the External Services
2 June 2022
What do we do when a programme over-runs? Fade it out, or run everything else late?
19 May 2022
The BBC’s most popular comedy show, around the world as well as at home, requires a team of writers
21 April 2022
With the outbreak of war, the BBC Empire Service announcers move from anonymity to the impersonation-avoiding limelight
24 January 2022
A dryly humorous recollection of starting the BBC’s Manchester radio station in the 1920s
22 November 2021
It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation
14 December 2020
There’s a thrilling end to a football match, so here’s the Show Band Show instead
11 November 2020
Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio
24 September 2018
The 1950 BBC Handbook celebrates the big hit for the Light Programme in 1949: Take It From Here by Denis Norden and Frank Muir
12 July 2018
The Guardian mourns the closure of the BBC Albanian Service in 1967
9 July 2018
Norman Collins is disappointed with the government’s White Paper on Broadcasting Policy in 1967
24 May 2018
The ‘girls’ who keep the BBC’s four northern local radio stations on air in 1968
17 May 2018
The Observer notes that training has begun for staff of the new BBC local radio stations in 1967
8 May 2018
The Guardian in 1967 on why Manchester won’t be getting a BBC local radio station
7 May 2018
Inside the hit BBC National Programme series ‘In Town To-night’, from 1935
9 April 2018
Did the BBC’s External Services help, hinder or just inform the revolution in Prague in 1968?
22 November 2017
Celebrate 50 years of BBC Radio Merseyside with a trip back to their launch
18 September 2017
An introduction to how time works and why the Greenwich pips are important from 1931
4 September 2017
Pay a visit to the newly opened Brookmans Park transmitter in 1931 as the BBC’s “Regional Scheme” begins
13 April 2017
The 1945 BBC Yearbook looks back at a quiet success of the war: Music While You Work
13 March 2017
Frank Gillard in 1964 on the launch of the BBC Music Programme and the realignment of the BBC’s three radio networks
12 December 2016
BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer
7 November 2016
Novelist L.A.G. Strong explains why regional broadcasting is so important in 1945