BBC Radio

A new BBC transmitter is being built near Slaithwaite in 1931

Construction is well underway of the BBC’s new Broadcasting House in 1931

Ted Kavanagh explains where wartime hit ‘ITMA’ came from

How the job of announcing on the BBC changed when war broke out

The BBC Handbook for 1968 explains how BBC local radio is spreading

The BBC Year-book of 1931 explains how a King’s speech was heard around the world

Holocaust Memorial Day: the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby describes entering the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945

The BBC decides to reveal all when war breaks out

V for Victory

Welcome to Radio Merseyside

The Guardian in 1992 reports on a new BBC 24-hour news radio station

Radio 1 swings on to the air

March 1950, and it’s time to retune your radio

Radio 1’s oldest listener looks back on a life tuning in to the wireless.

Nigel Stapley remembers

Welsh poetry on the air

BBC Listen Again goes upmarket – briefly

The birth of Radios 1-4

The coming of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4

Robin Carmody looks back on his Moment

Roddy Buxton remembers

Recalling Radio 1

Mike Brown’s memories

Jonathan Bufton takes stock

More than Sunday Lunch

A love/hate relationship

Radio 4: a personal history

Radio One at 40

Kirk Northrop surprises himself

Growing up with Radios 1 & 2

Anatomy of a popular radio series

Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945

On and off with BBC LR

The recent history of Radio 2, and its change from “Radio Grim Reaper” to being the most popular station on the dial.

Another revolution at Radio One

A revolution at BBC Radio One throws out the old and rings in the new – in public and painfully

Advertising guru Charles Higham warns against commercial radio… in 1933

The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy

Radio Two tries to find an identity after two decades under the shadow of its younger sibling

From Leicester to national: a success story

A comedy series… that started on BBC Radio 3 of all places

A prehistory of British broadcasting

An episode guide to a most underrated radio comedy

A chronology of one of the most popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series of the eighties.

The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.