Articles about BBC100

The BBC’s new programme Breakfast Time has launched and the staff newspaper is full of praise

Meet the man whose laidback style belies his nose for hard news

A look around the BBC Television Centre as the first studio programme goes out and a party is thrown

The 50th anniversary of the BBC Empire Service is marked by a look at how it was established

Behind the scenes of a vital but barely known part of the External Services

  I HAVE been asked to set down some thoughts on conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and I am happy and willing to do so since it allows listeners to…

What do we do when a programme over-runs? Fade it out, or run everything else late?

The life of a floor manager in BBCtv is a tough one…

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

A look at BBCtv programmes for children in 1951

Television prepares for its greatest triumph, to reach out beyond the frontiers of Europe and bring you instantaneous sights and sounds from six different countries

A 1938 diagram of a television studio caught our eye…

Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC

The head of Children’s Television at the BBC explains why kids are drawn to the medium

Inside BBCtv, from 1930 to 1950, in pictures

With the outbreak of war, the BBC Empire Service announcers move from anonymity to the impersonation-avoiding limelight

A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments

A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre

The BBC reaches out across the world

The BBC listens to the enemy whilst also undermining them

Going very much behind the scenes to meet the women who clean the BBCtv studios

The BBC serves the Home Front – from replacing bombed-out schools to playing music while you work

The BBC makes the transition from peacetime to war – and war comes to Broadcasting House

An interview with the BBC continuity announcer McDonald Hobley

The BBC celebrates its silver jubilee in our new microsite

Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers

Inside the huge task of printing and distributing 8 million copies of the Radio Times every week

A personal recollection of organising a most ambitious television link-up

Huw Wheldon takes us around the new Television Centre, under construction in Shepherd’s Bush

A dryly humorous recollection of starting the BBC’s Manchester radio station in the 1920s

Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter