Articles about BBC Home Service

How the new VHF-FM broadcasting system will benefit you – and how to tune in

Is the BBC fit for the hard work of covering the Coronation? And does it cost too much?

Part four of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

Part one of a series on how time is measured and broadcast by the BBC

After 10 years, the BBC’s radio networks have started to drift. Here’s how they’re going to be put back on track

Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB

A souvenir of your visit to the Ideal Home Show in March 1965

  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…

The BBC reaches out across the world

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

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

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it

Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio

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

Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951

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 final closedown, 29 September 1967

Frank Gillard in 1964 on the launch of the BBC Music Programme and the realignment of the BBC’s three radio networks

BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer

Novelist L.A.G. Strong explains why regional broadcasting is so important in 1945

How the job of announcing on the BBC changed when war broke out

A look at what was on the Home Service on Thursday 14 September 1939

The coming of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4

The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.