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Pictures from 60 BBC years
Published 14 November 2022
The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs
An unrivalled reputation for speaking the truth
Published 14 November 2022
A run-through of the history of the BBC World Service
The Empire Short-Wave Service
Published 23 September 2022
The BBC’s chief engineer talks shortwave listeners through the best aerials and automatic volume controls for hearing the BBC Empire Service
London Calling… urgently
Published 9 July 2022
“Hello, Fenella? I shan’t be able to get back for dinner. A sort of war’s broken out.”
How the world was circled by a band of steel
Published 16 June 2022
The 50th anniversary of the BBC Empire Service is marked by a look at how it was established
This ‘fading out’!
Published 2 June 2022
What do we do when a programme over-runs? Fade it out, or run everything else late?
Ten Years of Technical Progress
Published 6 May 2022
Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC
Meet the Empire Announcers
Published 21 April 2022
With the outbreak of war, the BBC Empire Service announcers move from anonymity to the impersonation-avoiding limelight
The Story of ANNOUNCERS and ANNOUNCING over Thirty Years
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers