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The BBC Television Story

Published 29 November 2023

Celebrating 20 years of BBC television

Make-up and Wardrobe

Published 9 November 2023

Meet Johnny, Tommy and Pamela, three of the women who keep BBCtv stars looking good

Helping with the “dishes”

Published 26 October 2023

The superhuman effort of getting microwave dishes up towers for outside broadcasts

Judith’s tense moments as a TV announcer

Published 9 October 2023

Meet Judith Chalmers, the busy BBCtv announcing ‘girl’

Holme Moss

Published 6 October 2023

All you ever needed to know about an engineering achievement high in the Pennines

Colour TV: This is how it will look when it comes

Published 10 July 2023

Back to mechanical television as a way of bringing colour into your home

Another chance to see… the time

Published 7 July 2023

If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock

T.V. Plans

Published 2 June 2023

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

BBC sticker campaign raises a laugh

Published 24 April 2023

It’s war as the BBC and TVS go head to head… over a car sticker

A New Midland Studio for BBC Television

Published 17 April 2023

Having opened in January 1956, the BBC’s Midland television studios are finally complete

Meet the Groves

Published 3 April 2023

The creator of BBCtv’s first soap opera talks about writing the new show

Presenting BILL WARD in his sensational production JUGGLING with the STARS

Published 20 March 2023

Meet the man behind the BBC Television Service’s most memorable live shows

BBC income and expenditure 1959-1960

Published 20 January 2023

The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60

BBC Breakfast Time

Published 17 January 2023

40 years ago…

Children in Need

Published 18 November 2022

A look back at Children in Need 1982

The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on the BBC

Published 18 September 2022

Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB

A reply to charges of trivia in BBC-tv programmes

Published 2 September 2022

The people who say BBCtv programmes are too populist don’t appear to have watched any, says Huw Wheldon

‘He’s Dead Funny Sometimes’

Published 30 June 2022

Meet the man whose laidback style belies his nose for hard news

The BBC Television Centre

Published 17 June 2022

A look around the BBC Television Centre as the first studio programme goes out and a party is thrown

BBC Television Picture Book

Published 28 April 2022

Inside BBCtv, from 1930 to 1950, in pictures

Another chance to see… Top of the Pops

Published 3 February 2022

It’s Number One, it’s Top Of The Pops!

How they put sport into Saturday’s Grandstand

Published 29 November 2021

The behind-the-scenes chaos that translates to a professional on-screen programme

Correcting picture faults

Published 1 November 2021

Make sure your television set is fully adjusted to improve your viewing

The Great TV War: a TV ‘Light’ could save the BBC

Published 5 January 2021

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it

The Great TV War

Published 4 January 2021

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s why

Wake up to breakfast TV!

Published 14 October 2019

Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983

Almost a silent night

Published 24 December 2018

CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1969

Published 18 July 2018

A look at what was on BBCtv in the north on Friday 18 July 1969

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1967

Published 4 July 2018

A look at what was on BBCtv in the north on Tuesday 4 July 1967

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1969

Published 4 April 2018

A look at what was on BBC-1 and BBC-2 on Thursday 18 April 1974

Back in time for TV: 1960

Published 24 March 2018

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1960 for a look at what was on the telly

Back in time for TV: 18-24 February 1960

Published 24 March 2018

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-24 February 1960 for a look at what was on the telly

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1967

Published 29 November 2017

A look at what was on BBCtv on Wednesday 29 November 1967

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1986

Published 1 November 2017

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 1 November 1986

The Television Centre – its significance for professional visitors

Published 3 July 2017

From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1968

Published 17 May 2017

A look at what was on BBCtv on Friday 17 May 1968

In place of the advertised programme…

Published 26 January 2017

The Radio Times talks about the thought that goes into postponing a programme

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1963

Published 23 November 2016

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 23 November 1963

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1986

Published 2 November 2016

A look at what was on the BBC on Sunday 2 November 1986

How television talks are produced

Published 31 October 2016

Grace Wyndham Goldie explains the chaos that is making a television talk

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1960

Published 19 October 2016

A look at what was on BBCtv on Wednesday 19 October 1960

Twenty-Four Hours

Published 29 September 2016

The Radio Times in 1966 spends an evening with the people behind BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1968

Published 17 June 2016

A look at what was on the BBC on Monday 17 June 1968

This week’s BBCtv… in 1950

Published 12 March 2016

A look at what was on the BBC Television Service in the week of Sunday 12 March 1950

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1964

Published 10 March 2016

A look at what was on the BBC Television Service on Tuesday 10 March 1964

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