BBC Radio
Announcing the changes
6 October 2016
How the job of announcing on the BBC changed when war broke out
Heard around the world
18 August 2016
The BBC Year-book of 1931 explains how a King’s speech was heard around the world
The Cesspit Beneath
27 January 2016
Holocaust Memorial Day: the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby describes entering the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945
Rolling news, radio style
17 November 2014
The Guardian in 1992 reports on a new BBC 24-hour news radio station
A Day In The Life… Sort Of
16 January 2011
Radio 1’s oldest listener looks back on a life tuning in to the wireless.
Just for you
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.
The cull of Radio 1
1 December 2003
A revolution at BBC Radio One throws out the old and rings in the new – in public and painfully
No ads please – we’re British
30 November 2003
Advertising guru Charles Higham warns against commercial radio… in 1933
Out of the Light 1
29 November 2003
The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy
Out of the Light 2
28 November 2003
Radio Two tries to find an identity after two decades under the shadow of its younger sibling
A chronology of RadioActive!
15 August 2001
A chronology of one of the most popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series of the eighties.
A new lease of life
15 August 2001
The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.
Forces of Light
15 August 2001
How the Light Programme was shaped by the wartime Forces and General Forces programmes