8 March 2021
BBC Scotland’s staff newsletter on the cramped conditions in Edinburgh
22 February 2021
How did the launch of the BBC’s Kirk o’Shotts TV transmitter go down with viewers in 1952?
5 January 2021
BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it
2 November 2020
The opening-day speeches from the new BBC Television Service
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
14 October 2019
Selina Scott, Frank Bough and Nick Ross are here to welcome you to Britain’s ‘first’ television breakfast show in 1983
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
24 December 2018
CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED – almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978
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
25 September 2017
A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961
3 July 2017
From 1968, a look at why BBC Television Centre was attracting crowds… of other broadcasters
12 May 2017
The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937
16 February 2017
The 1937 viewer may be surprised to learn that some parts of television are – gasp! – not real
26 January 2017
The Radio Times talks about the thought that goes into postponing a programme
23 January 2017
The former editor of the Daily Herald decides what is public service broadcasting and whether the BBC manages to produce it
29 December 2016
The Radio Times explains how the BBC used to go looking for advice
17 December 2016
The BBC’s Norman Collins explains television for the benefit of new Midlands viewers
3 October 2016
The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946
1 September 2016
A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down
22 August 2016
The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics
25 July 2014
The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968
23 July 2014
The big event that brought television into the lives of the masses
15 June 2014
A BBC leaflet sent out with paper licences in 1982 gives us an outline of its history, organisation and policy
15 June 2014
BBC-2 News for Spring 1968 brings you all the 625 and colour information you need
19 October 2006
David Brockman looks back at the seventies and the then-massive BBC commitment to Network Production Centres outside London
1 April 2005
The events of last year were just the latest, says Glenn Aylett
1 January 2005
Richard Elen finds the Green Paper less dangerous than the DG