20 October 2016
Construction is well underway of the BBC’s new Broadcasting House in 1931
6 October 2016
How the job of announcing on the BBC changed when war broke out
18 August 2016
The BBC Year-book of 1931 explains how a King’s speech was heard around the world
27 January 2016
Holocaust Memorial Day: the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby describes entering the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945
17 November 2014
The Guardian in 1992 reports on a new BBC 24-hour news radio station
16 January 2011
Radio 1’s oldest listener looks back on a life tuning in to the wireless.
1 January 2005
The recent history of Radio 2, and its change from “Radio Grim Reaper” to being the most popular station on the dial.
1 December 2003
A revolution at BBC Radio One throws out the old and rings in the new – in public and painfully
30 November 2003
Advertising guru Charles Higham warns against commercial radio… in 1933
29 November 2003
The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy
28 November 2003
Radio Two tries to find an identity after two decades under the shadow of its younger sibling
15 August 2001
A chronology of one of the most popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series of the eighties.
15 August 2001
The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.