Radio
The new look in radio
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
Heartbreak on the line
30 January 2017
Radio Guide in May 1976 takes a look at late night ILR phone-ins
The old BBC: early progress and expansion
20 January 2017
Part four of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company
Announcing from the inside
12 December 2016
BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer
Long live regional broadcasting
7 November 2016
Novelist L.A.G. Strong explains why regional broadcasting is so important in 1945
The Cesspit Beneath
27 January 2016
Holocaust Memorial Day: the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby describes entering the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945
Testing, testing, 3, 5, 5
17 September 2015
Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio – two ‘forgotten’ pop pirates.
Kenny the kidder
3 September 2015
Probably the greatest maker of radio Britain ever created… especially when the devil got into him
Rolling news, radio style
17 November 2014
The Guardian in 1992 reports on a new BBC 24-hour news radio station
From a distance
30 November 2012
Nigel Stapley twirls the FM dial in the days when that meant silence or hiss
A Day In The Life… Sort Of
16 January 2011
Radio 1’s oldest listener looks back on a life tuning in to the wireless.