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New European Wavelengths Plan
Published 15 January 2023
An in-depth look at the Lucerne Plan for radio wavelengths in Europe in 1933
Broadcasting in Britain: The Pre-War Years 1932-1939
Published 9 December 2022
Part three of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Ten Years of Technical Progress
Published 6 May 2022
Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC
The Story of ANNOUNCERS and ANNOUNCING over Thirty Years
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
How “In Town To-night” is Put on the Air
Published 7 May 2018
Inside the hit BBC National Programme series ‘In Town To-night’, from 1935
“What are the Wild Waves Saying?”
Published 7 December 2017
The BBC’s chief engineer in 1923 takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at the trials and tribulations of developing simultaneous broadcasting (networking as we would now call it)
The beginning of a new service
Published 4 September 2017
Pay a visit to the newly opened Brookmans Park transmitter in 1931 as the BBC’s “Regional Scheme” begins