Articles about BBC

It’s 1949 and regional radio from the BBC Home Service is at its height. Our new special site reprints a BBC West of England booklet going behind the scenes of radio in the west and south west

A look at what was on the BBC on Tuesday 12 September 1939

The Guardian mourns the closure of the BBC Albanian Service in 1967

Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV

The ‘girls’ who keep the BBC’s four northern local radio stations on air in 1968

Inside the hit BBC National Programme series ‘In Town To-night’, from 1935

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

Ice hockey on the radio propels Stewart MacPherson from the press office at the Wembley Pool into a career with the BBC

Dirty Feed has a great examination of the changes between the script and the production of 1965 Dennis Potter’s ‘Stand Up, Nigel Barton’ play

Remembering Radio 1’s first morning

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

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 3

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 2

Broadcaster Freddy Grisewood’s story of the BBC at war – part 1

A report wonders if children’s television is good for 1959’s children

What’s new for the BBC in the next year?

By-ways of the BBC: exploring Ally Pally in 1938 [9/9]

By-ways of the BBC: making it all happen in 1938 [8/9]

Why didn’t the government take over the running of the BBC in 1940?

By-ways of the BBC: the output of Maida Vale, St George’s Hall and beyond in 1938 [7/9]

By-ways of the BBC: the output of Broadcasting House in 1938 [6/9]

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

By-ways of the BBC: the school in Broadcasting House in 1938 [5/9]

Ray Moore opens and closes the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest for BBC Radio 2

By-ways of the BBC: the first floor of Broadcasting House in 1938 [4/9]

By-ways of the BBC: the basements of Broadcasting House in 1938 [3/9]

By-ways of the BBC: walking into Broadcasting House in 1938 [2/9]

By-ways of the BBC: an introduction to Broadcasting House in 1938 [1/9]

The 1945 BBC Yearbook looks back at a quiet success of the war: Music While You Work

BBC Newsnight on the Peacock Report in 1986, which recommends ITV franchises go to the highest bidder and BBC Radios 1 and 2 are sold

Part seven of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

Part six of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

Part five of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

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

Part four of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

The BBC in 1986 details what went wrong with the planned BBC/IBA satellite service

Part three of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

Part two of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

Some gentle broadcasting humour from the 1930 BBC Yearbook

The first part of our special series remembering the British Broadcasting Company, 90 years after it became today’s BBC

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

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

What the BBC meant to the people of occupied France

The BBC Handbook for 1961 celebrates the opening of the first studio at Television Centre

Construction is well underway of the BBC’s new Broadcasting House in 1931