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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 6 May 2023
How the BBC will cover the coronation of George VI
Published 16 December 2022
Part four of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Published 2 December 2022
Part two of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Published 25 November 2022
Part one 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 14 October 2022
Part one of a series on how time is measured and broadcast by the BBC
Published 10 October 2022
In an age before Google, one of the most vital parts of the BBC was its reference libraries
Published 8 September 2022
Richard Dimbleby explains his BBC Television Service commentary to the Sunday Dispatch in June 1953
Published 20 May 2022
Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House
Published 6 May 2022
Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC
Published 25 March 2022
The BBC serves the Home Front – from replacing bombed-out schools to playing music while you work
Published 18 March 2022
The BBC makes the transition from peacetime to war – and war comes to Broadcasting House
Published 3 October 2021
The opening of the new Broadcasting House in 1932 is celebrated in our new microsite detailing its design and construction
Published 19 March 2021
As the BBC gets ready to move from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House in 1932, the staff look back at the old headquarters
Published 7 May 2018
Inside the hit BBC National Programme series ‘In Town To-night’, from 1935
Published 25 May 2017
By-ways of the BBC: the output of Broadcasting House in 1938 [6/9]
Published 18 May 2017
By-ways of the BBC: the school in Broadcasting House in 1938 [5/9]
Published 11 May 2017
By-ways of the BBC: the first floor of Broadcasting House in 1938 [4/9]
Published 5 May 2017
By-ways of the BBC: the basements of Broadcasting House in 1938 [3/9]
Published 27 April 2017
By-ways of the BBC: walking into Broadcasting House in 1938 [2/9]
Published 21 April 2017
By-ways of the BBC: an introduction to Broadcasting House in 1938 [1/9]
Published 20 October 2016
Construction is well underway of the BBC’s new Broadcasting House in 1931