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Published 18 May 2022
A look at BBCtv programmes for children in 1951
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
Published 6 May 2022
Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC
Published 5 May 2022
A review of the progress of the BBC Television Service
Published 11 April 2022
A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre
Published 28 March 2022
Going very much behind the scenes to meet the women who clean the BBCtv studios
Published 14 March 2022
An interview with the BBC continuity announcer McDonald Hobley
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
Published 4 February 2022
A personal recollection of organising a most ambitious television link-up
Published 31 January 2022
Huw Wheldon takes us around the new Television Centre, under construction in Shepherd’s Bush
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
Published 10 December 2021
The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look
Published 2 November 2021
Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service
Published 22 October 2021
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954
Published 6 August 2021
The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting
Published 22 February 2021
How did the launch of the BBC’s Kirk o’Shotts TV transmitter go down with viewers in 1952?
Published 15 February 2021
A camera test exposes the behind-the-scenes choices announcers have to make in 1951
Published 2 November 2020
A local newspaper celebrates 25 years of BBCtv in 1961
Published 2 November 2020
The opening-day speeches from the new BBC Television Service
Published 14 October 2020
60 men battle the elements to bring BBCtv to the north of England in 1951
Published 25 September 2020
The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961
Published 16 September 2020
Disaster strikes television development as the Crystal Palace burns down
Published 11 September 2020
Travel back to 1956 as the BBC celebrates 20 years of television
Published 26 August 2020
Television is about to be looking back at you in 1953. That sounds fun.
Published 22 July 2020
Television pictures get from Rome to Copenhagen, Paris, Bonn, Hilversum and London in an exciting new development in 1954
Published 18 April 2020
BBCtv continuity announcer, reporter, actress and director Jacqueline Mackenzie tells us how to land – and keep – a role in television in 1958
Published 20 March 2020
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television
Published 3 September 2018
Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development
Published 6 June 2018
A look at what was on television on Saturday 6 June 1953
Published 1 May 2017
A 1955 interview with Richard Hearne, once one of Britain’s biggest TV stars and now all but forgotten
Published 20 February 2017
BBC Producer Stephen McCormack reveals what has gone on in making the London Town and About Britain programmes in 1955
Published 16 February 2017
The 1937 viewer may be surprised to learn that some parts of television are – gasp! – not real
Published 17 December 2016
The BBC’s Norman Collins explains television for the benefit of new Midlands viewers
Published 17 December 2016
The Radio Times explains the technical achievements in building the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in 1949
Published 10 November 2016
Commander A B Campbell tells the tale of his first appearance on TV
Published 2 November 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television
Published 31 October 2016
Grace Wyndham Goldie explains the chaos that is making a television talk
Published 3 October 2016
The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946
Published 1 September 2016
A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down
Published 22 August 2016
The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics
Published 28 July 2016
The Times newspaper today reports the death of Sylvia Peters, the BBC’s chief female announcer in the 1940s and 50s.