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On Conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra
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…
The Story of ANNOUNCERS and ANNOUNCING over Thirty Years
Published 4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
The future of television: Divine Right
Published 27 December 2021
Part Seven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
B.B.C. sheds battledress
Published 11 November 2020
Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio
A noiseless flash
Published 14 October 2020
On this day in 1946, BBC radio began serialising one of the most devastating essays ever written
Tonight’s BBC radio… in 1964
Published 31 July 2019
A look at what was on BBC radio on Friday 31 July 1964
Receiving the Home, Light and Third
Published 22 October 2018
Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951
The new look in radio
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
Announcing from the inside
Published 12 December 2016
BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer
The Many Lives of BBC Radio Sport
Published 9 April 2007
Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945
A new lease of life
Published 15 August 2001
The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.