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Published 4 April 2023
An ideal job for young married women: typing stuff for the BBC
Published 20 January 2023
The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60
Published 25 November 2022
Part one of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Published 14 November 2022
The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs
Published 14 September 2022
Milton Shulman prefers BBC comedy to ITV comedy… sometimes
Published 25 May 2022
A 1996 leaflet extolling the virtues of our BBC
Published 20 May 2022
Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House
Published 28 December 2021
Part Ten: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 27 December 2021
Part Eight: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 27 December 2021
Part Seven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 10 December 2021
The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look
Published 3 October 2021
The opening of the new Broadcasting House in 1932 is celebrated in our new microsite detailing its design and construction
Published 1 October 2021
How to get your allies to listen to you
Published 21 June 2021
The Cardiff Singer of the World competition is something only our BBC could do
Published 19 March 2021
As the BBC gets ready to move from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House in 1932, the staff look back at the old headquarters
Published 8 March 2021
BBC Scotland’s staff newsletter on the cramped conditions in Edinburgh
Published 31 July 2019
A look at what was on BBC radio on Friday 31 July 1964
Published 8 October 2018
It’s 1949 and regional radio from the BBC Home Service is at its height. Our new special site reprints a BBC West of England booklet going behind the scenes of radio in the west and south west
Published 12 September 2018
A look at what was on the BBC on Tuesday 12 September 1939
Published 12 July 2018
The Guardian mourns the closure of the BBC Albanian Service in 1967
Published 4 June 2018
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV
Published 24 May 2018
The ‘girls’ who keep the BBC’s four northern local radio stations on air in 1968
Published 7 May 2018
Inside the hit BBC National Programme series ‘In Town To-night’, from 1935
Published 19 March 2018
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968
Published 6 March 2018
Ice hockey on the radio propels Stewart MacPherson from the press office at the Wembley Pool into a career with the BBC
Published 25 February 2018
Dirty Feed has a great examination of the changes between the script and the production of 1965 Dennis Potter’s ‘Stand Up, Nigel Barton’ play
Published 25 September 2017
A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961
Published 9 August 2017
Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 3
Published 3 August 2017
Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 2
Published 28 July 2017
Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 1
Published 24 July 2017
A report wonders if children’s television is good for 1959’s children
Published 5 June 2017
Why didn’t the government take over the running of the BBC in 1940?
Published 1 June 2017
By-ways of the BBC: the output of Maida Vale, St George’s Hall and beyond in 1938 [7/9]
Published 25 May 2017
By-ways of the BBC: the output of Broadcasting House in 1938 [6/9]
Published 22 May 2017
BBC-2 is on its way to the north of England. This 1965 leaflet tells you all you need to know about receiving it
Published 18 May 2017
By-ways of the BBC: the school in Broadcasting House in 1938 [5/9]