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Published 30 November 2023
How could you expect a girl to play a love scene looking like a corpse? It’s what they had to do in the early days
Published 2 November 2023
21 years from the official start of the BBC Television Service, the Earls Court Radio Show looks at how the BBC are celebrating at the exhibition
Published 20 October 2023
There’s a lot for the British to be proud of when it comes to TV
Published 28 September 2023
You’re about to see the world from a very unusual angle: straight down!
Published 8 September 2023
This new ‘television’ idea is getting popular, but how does it work?
Published 19 May 2023
Is the BBC fit for the hard work of covering the Coronation? And does it cost too much?
Published 13 May 2023
A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House
Published 14 November 2022
The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs
Published 4 November 2022
BBCtv uses more feet of film each year than Hollywood
Published 8 September 2022
Richard Dimbleby explains his BBC Television Service commentary to the Sunday Dispatch in June 1953
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