Articles about BBC100

A look behind the scenes of the Light Programme’s major news bulletin

The presentation control room and the announcers move from Ally Pally to Lime Grove

Part two of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

Part one of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

The chairman of the BBC looks back at 60 years of broadcasting

The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs

A run-through of the history of the BBC World Service

BBCtv uses more feet of film each year than Hollywood

The huge success that is the BBC’s Breakfast Time

BBC local radio coverage maps

In an age before Google, one of the most vital parts of the BBC was its reference libraries

The BBC’s chief engineer talks shortwave listeners through the best aerials and automatic volume controls for hearing the BBC Empire Service

Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB

Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan

Backstage at Windsor for the Queen’s Christmas Message

BBC Technical Information maps of VHF and MW transmitters

Inside the Television Presentation department

The story of a live TV play from script to screen

The BBC helps set up a new broadcaster… in the middle of a hurricane

The BBC tests NTSC colour on 405-lines for the benefit of MPs

As Richard Baker retires from newsreading in 1982, Ariel looks back at his BBC career

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