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Published 30 June 2023
How the new VHF-FM broadcasting system will benefit you – and how to tune in
Published 19 May 2023
Is the BBC fit for the hard work of covering the Coronation? And does it cost too much?
Published 23 December 2022
Part five of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Published 14 November 2022
The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs
Published 30 September 2022
After 10 years, the BBC’s radio networks have started to drift. Here’s how they’re going to be put back on track
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 3 June 2022
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…
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
Published 27 December 2021
Part Seven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 11 November 2020
Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio
Published 14 October 2020
On this day in 1946, BBC radio began serialising one of the most devastating essays ever written
Published 31 July 2019
A look at what was on BBC radio on Friday 31 July 1964
Published 22 October 2018
Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951
Published 13 March 2017
Frank Gillard in 1964 on the launch of the BBC Music Programme and the realignment of the BBC’s three radio networks
Published 12 December 2016
BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer
Published 9 April 2007
Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945
Published 15 August 2001
The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.