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#116 The BBC's First Birthday - 14 November 1923
Our moment-by-moment retrospective of British broadcasting has reached the BBC's first birthday - 14 November 1923.
We started covering that first year back on episode 18! It's taken a while to get here - but what a year it was. From the first BBC news bulletin, songs and children's programmes to outside broadcasts, simultaneous broadcasting, new stations in Scotland and Wales, a government enquiry, new premises, wireless manhunts, the Radio Times and so much more, we've covered the lot across nearly 100 episodes.
This episode we lead up to the first birthday with plans for the pips, a…
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