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The BBC Television Centre
Published 17 June 2022
A look around the BBC Television Centre as the first studio programme goes out and a party is thrown
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
BBC Transcription Service
Published 10 June 2022
Behind the scenes of a vital but barely known part of the External Services
On Conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Published 3 June 2022
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…
This ‘fading out’!
Published 2 June 2022
What do we do when a programme over-runs? Fade it out, or run everything else late?
Television floor managers
Published 27 May 2022
The life of a floor manager in BBCtv is a tough one…
The BBC: you make it what it is
Published 25 May 2022
A 1996 leaflet extolling the virtues of our BBC
Shock at the 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
Television for Younger Viewers
Published 18 May 2022
A look at BBCtv programmes for children in 1951
Eurovision
Published 14 May 2022
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
Ten Years of Technical Progress
Published 6 May 2022
Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC
Why do children like their Television?
Published 29 April 2022
The head of Children’s Television at the BBC explains why kids are drawn to the medium
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
Thirty Productive Acres
Published 15 April 2022
A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments
Setting the Scene for TV
Published 11 April 2022
A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre
BBC at War – part 3: The Battle Front
Published 1 April 2022
The BBC listens to the enemy whilst also undermining them
Lime Grove’s ‘Mrs. Mopps’
Published 28 March 2022
Going very much behind the scenes to meet the women who clean the BBCtv studios
BBC at War – part 2: The Home Front
Published 25 March 2022
The BBC serves the Home Front – from replacing bombed-out schools to playing music while you work
BBC at War – part 1: From Peace to War
Published 18 March 2022
The BBC makes the transition from peacetime to war – and war comes to Broadcasting House
When I talk to you
Published 14 March 2022
An interview with the BBC continuity announcer McDonald Hobley
Twenty-five years of British broadcasting
Published 11 March 2022
The BBC celebrates its silver jubilee in our new microsite
The Story of ANNOUNCERS and ANNOUNCING over Thirty Years
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
The Romance of ‘Radio Times’
Published 7 February 2022
Inside the huge task of printing and distributing 8 million copies of the Radio Times every week
Magic of Eight-Nation Television
Published 4 February 2022
A personal recollection of organising a most ambitious television link-up
BBC Television Builds a New City
Published 31 January 2022
Huw Wheldon takes us around the new Television Centre, under construction in Shepherd’s Bush
‘2 ZY Manchester Calling’!
Published 24 January 2022
A dryly humorous recollection of starting the BBC’s Manchester radio station in the 1920s
Welcome to the NEW Region…
Published 21 January 2022
Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter