BBC
BBC ‘Colourful One’
15 November 2019
It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel
Wake up to breakfast TV!
14 October 2019
Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983
Why balance should be banned
15 April 2019
In the aftermath of ‘Yesterday’s Men’ in 1971, Sean Day-Lewis argues we need more bias and less balance on the BBC
Almost a silent night
24 December 2018
CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978
The BBC since 1958
19 March 2018
Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968
Audience Research
25 September 2017
A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961
The Television Centre – its significance for professional visitors
3 July 2017
From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters
The Coronation Broadcasts
12 May 2017
The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937
Public service broadcasting – in 1949
23 January 2017
The former editor of the Daily Herald decides what is public service broadcasting and whether the BBC manages to produce it
This Thing Called Television
17 December 2016
The BBC’s Norman Collins explains television for the benefit of new Midlands viewers
Television returns in 1946
3 October 2016
The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946
Au Revoir, Television
1 September 2016
A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down
Broadcasting the Olympic Games
22 August 2016
The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics
Getting 2 colour
25 July 2014
The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968
The day television caught fire
23 July 2014
The big event that brought television into the lives of the masses
The BBC in 1982
15 June 2014
A BBC leaflet sent out with paper licences in 1982 gives us an outline of its history, organisation and policy
What goes around comes around
19 October 2006
David Brockman looks back at the seventies and the then-massive BBC commitment to Network Production Centres outside London
BBC Under Fire – 80s Style
1 April 2005
The events of last year were just the latest, says Glenn Aylett
Nothing Better Than Something
1 January 2005
Richard Elen finds the Green Paper less dangerous than the DG
Getting the BBC out of the way
24 February 2004
Richard Elen asks if the BBC really needs far reaching change
The Controller’s Chair: BBC Three
1 January 2004
Third time wasn’t so lucky for BBC Three. Give Ian Beaumont a go
The Fools On The Hill Return
1 January 2002
Kif Bowden-Smith on the politics behind the return of TV in 1946