31 October 2019
From the vaults: Ulster Television starts the day one morning in 1978
14 June 2018
You know him from Trumpton and Camberwick Green. We know him from his 8 daily start-up pieces for BBC-1 (two on Sundays) in use 1964-7. Have a listen to them on our SoundCloud channel
2 June 2018
Listen to Television start the day each day on Transdiffusion’s free SoundCloud playlist
25 December 2017
On retransmission stations of the internet, this is the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
16 October 2017
On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV
29 September 2017
Music Through Midnight with David Hamilton sees the BBC Light Programme off into history
14 August 2017
Radio Caroline chooses not to sink in the face of the Marine Offences Act
16 June 2017
A demo package of jingles for Radio Forth, NorthSound and Moray Firth Radio from 1981
2 June 2017
New local radio station CBC in Cardiff prepares to come on air in 1980
12 May 2017
Ray Moore opens and closes the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest for BBC Radio 2
28 April 2017
Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the establishment of the BBC Monitoring Service during World War II
20 April 2017
Ludovic Kennedy on the botched launched of BBC-2
14 April 2017
Jingles are not just for radio, as Tuesday Productions show in this 1980s sampler
31 March 2017
Listen to Radio 1 and Radio 2’s introductory programme from the evening of 30 September 1967
24 March 2017
In 1981 this spin-off from Tomorrow’s World tries to divine which 12″ videodisc will win the battle
17 March 2017
Bob Godfrey’s 1963 surreal mix of advertising tropes
10 March 2017
John Walters goes to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1986
3 March 2017
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
17 February 2017
From the late 1970s, BBC Radio 1’s ‘Mailbag’ interviews producer Johnny Beerling about the station’s use of jingles.
1 December 2016
Audio of David Frost introducing the new London Weekend before Trevor Lucas takes ATV London off air for the final ever time
5 September 2016
An off-air audio recording of the first half hour of Thames’s first proper programme.
15 August 2016
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
4 August 2016
The BBC’s “24 Hours” looks at the troubled life of LWT in an audio recording from 1971.
29 March 2016
The handover from the Alpha Studios in Aston to the new Paradise Centre in Birmingham in 1969