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Getting the symbols to stick to the map is only the last stage of forecasting the weather on the BBC

A look back at Children in Need 1982

The chairman of the BBC looks back at 60 years of broadcasting

The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs

The huge success that is the BBC’s Breakfast Time

In an age before Google, one of the most vital parts of the BBC was its reference libraries

Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB

Backstage at Windsor for the Queen’s Christmas Message

Richard Dimbleby explains his BBC Television Service commentary to the Sunday Dispatch in June 1953

A souvenir of your visit to the Ideal Home Show in March 1965

A review of the progress of the BBC Television Service

The head of Children’s Television at the BBC explains why kids are drawn to the medium

Inside the huge task of printing and distributing 8 million copies of the Radio Times every week

Huw Wheldon takes us around the new Television Centre, under construction in Shepherd’s Bush

BBC Scotland’s staff newsletter on the cramped conditions in Edinburgh

How did the launch of the BBC’s Kirk o’Shotts TV transmitter go down with viewers in 1952?

No, not that Yorkshire Television. This is the first television for Yorkshire, the BBC, which could be on air by 1950

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

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s why

The opening-day speeches from the new BBC Television Service

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

In the aftermath of ‘Yesterday’s Men’ in 1971, Sean Day-Lewis argues we need more bias and less balance on the BBC

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

BBC-2 transmitters in service and planned in 1968

Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968

A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961

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

BBC-2 is on its way to the north of England. This 1965 leaflet tells you all you need to know about receiving it

The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937

The 1937 viewer may be surprised to learn that some parts of television are – gasp! – not real

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

The former editor of the Daily Herald decides what is public service broadcasting and whether the BBC manages to produce it

The Radio Times explains how the BBC used to go looking for advice

The BBC’s Norman Collins explains television for the benefit of new Midlands viewers

The Radio Times explains the technical achievements in building the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in 1949

A fine slice of sexism from 1955

The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946

BBC Monitoring is examined in 1950

A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down

The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics

The Director-General steps in and bans broadcast of a docudrama

TV Mirror pays a visit to Lime Grove’s studio canteen in 1954

The BBC finally fights back against its critics

The man who made BBC2

As war comes to the world, the Radio Times is ready