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Published 20 January 2023
The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60
Published 26 August 2022
A BBC that does popular and minority programmes, or, as commercial competitors want, a BBC that only does minority interest shows?
Published 2 June 2022
What do we do when a programme over-runs? Fade it out, or run everything else late?
Published 24 May 2022
Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK
Published 19 May 2022
The BBC’s most popular comedy show, around the world as well as at home, requires a team of writers
Published 24 January 2022
A dryly humorous recollection of starting the BBC’s Manchester radio station in the 1920s
Published 22 November 2021
It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation
Published 3 September 2021
Unusual audience research as the BBC goes direct to the forces in France to ask them what they’d like to hear on the radio
Published 11 November 2020
Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio
Published 4 November 2020
Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959
Published 22 October 2018
Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951
Published 8 October 2018
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
Published 24 September 2018
The 1950 BBC Handbook celebrates the big hit for the Light Programme in 1949: Take It From Here by Denis Norden and Frank Muir
Published 6 March 2018
Ice hockey on the radio propels Stewart MacPherson from the press office at the Wembley Pool into a career with the BBC
Published 7 December 2017
The BBC’s chief engineer in 1923 takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at the trials and tribulations of developing simultaneous broadcasting (networking as we would now call it)
Published 10 October 2016
Ted Kavanagh explains where wartime hit ‘ITMA’ came from
Published 7 February 2016
A look at what was on the BBC’s radio networks on Monday 7 February 1938
Published 9 April 2007
Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945
Published 1 January 2005
The recent history of Radio 2, and its change from “Radio Grim Reaper” to being the most popular station on the dial.
Published 1 December 2003
A revolution at BBC Radio One throws out the old and rings in the new – in public and painfully
Published 30 November 2003
Advertising guru Charles Higham warns against commercial radio… in 1933
Published 29 November 2003
The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy