Articles about BBC

A leaflet celebrating 40 years of our BBC

The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60

Milton Shulman prefers BBC comedy to ITV comedy… sometimes

A 1996 leaflet extolling the virtues of our BBC

Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House

The TV licence is back in the news

Part Ten: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Part Eight: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Part Seven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look

The opening of the new Broadcasting House in 1932 is celebrated in our new microsite detailing its design and construction

How to get your allies to listen to you

The Cardiff Singer of the World competition is something only our BBC could do

As the BBC gets ready to move from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House in 1932, the staff look back at the old headquarters

BBC Scotland’s staff newsletter on the cramped conditions in Edinburgh

A look at what was on BBC radio on Friday 31 July 1964

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

A look at what was on the BBC on Tuesday 12 September 1939

The Guardian mourns the closure of the BBC Albanian Service in 1967

Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV

The ‘girls’ who keep the BBC’s four northern local radio stations on air in 1968

Inside the hit BBC National Programme series ‘In Town To-night’, from 1935

Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968

Ice hockey on the radio propels Stewart MacPherson from the press office at the Wembley Pool into a career with the BBC

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

Remembering Radio 1’s first morning

A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 3

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 2

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 1

A report wonders if children’s television is good for 1959’s children

What’s new for the BBC in the next year?

By-ways of the BBC: exploring Ally Pally in 1938 [9/9]

By-ways of the BBC: making it all happen in 1938 [8/9]

Why didn’t the government take over the running of the BBC in 1940?

By-ways of the BBC: the output of Maida Vale, St George’s Hall and beyond in 1938 [7/9]

By-ways of the BBC: the output of Broadcasting House in 1938 [6/9]

BBC-2 is on its way to the north of England. This 1965 leaflet tells you all you need to know about receiving it

By-ways of the BBC: the school in Broadcasting House in 1938 [5/9]

Ray Moore opens and closes the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest for BBC Radio 2

By-ways of the BBC: the first floor of Broadcasting House in 1938 [4/9]

By-ways of the BBC: the basements of Broadcasting House in 1938 [3/9]

By-ways of the BBC: walking into Broadcasting House in 1938 [2/9]

By-ways of the BBC: an introduction to Broadcasting House in 1938 [1/9]

The 1945 BBC Yearbook looks back at a quiet success of the war: Music While You Work