Bbc Radio - Notable Historical Events
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Bbc Radio - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1922-12-23 |
BBC Radio began daily newscasts |
1940-05-24 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio |
1949-07-29 |
BBC radio begins broadcasting |
1955-09-22 |
(ITV) Commercial TV begins in UK; meanwhile on BBC radio Grace Archer is killed in a barn fire on Brookfield Farm - the BBC denied that this was a spoiler! |
1962-03-07 |
Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio |
1963-06-04 |
1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio |
1969-04-25 |
5,400th & last episode of BBC Radio serial "The Dales" (formerly "Mrs Dale's Diary" ) |
1978-03-08 |
The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. |
1985-09-18 |
BBC Radio reports prime # 2^216091-1 found in Houston |
1994-03-28 |
BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom |
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Bbc Radio - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1912-06-24 |
Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator & cake connoisseur) |
1936-08-01 |
Laurie Taylor, Liverpool, English sociologist and broadcaster (BBC Radio 4) |
1951-02-23 |
Nicholas Kenyon, controller (BBC Radio 3) |
Bbc Radio - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1994-01-05 |
Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator for 40 yrs), dies |
1997-09-06 |
P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918) |
2015-11-03 |
Peter Donaldson dead: BBC Radio 4 newsreader dies aged 70 |
2016-03-17 |
Cliff Michelmore: BBC radio and TV broadcaster dies aged 96 |
2017-01-03 |
Former BBC radio presenter Brian Widlake dies aged 85 |
2017-02-06 |
BBC Radio 4 newsreader Howard Philpott dies aged 63 after cancer battle |
2017-02-21 |
BBC Radio 4 presenter Steve Hewlett dies aged 58 after cancer battle |
