Features
Lunch on Thames
An off-air audio recording of the first half hour of Thames’s first proper programme.
Au Revoir, Television
A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down
Broadcasting the Olympic Games
The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics
The shape of radio
In 1971, the government prepares to announce commercial radio. BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’ programme examines what system they might choose in this audio recording
Twenty-Four Hours
The Radio Times in 1966 spends an evening with the people behind BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’
The Diary of David Heathcote (3)
David Heathcote tells the story of his life in and out of broadcasting
Tonight’s Southern TV… in 1965
A look at what was on Southern Independent Television on Tuesday 21 September 1965
Tonight’s Yorkshire TV… in 1971
A look at what was on Yorkshire Television on Tuesday 7 September 1971
We are not cult
A new site from some friends of ours
Granada TV, Manchester 3
A new microsite looking at Quay Street in 1966
Sylvia Peters 1925-2016
The Times newspaper today reports the death of Sylvia Peters, the BBC’s chief female announcer in the 1940s and 50s.
World population explosion
Some really good news in amongst this week’s misery.