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#082 The BBC at Marconi House: 14-11-1922 to 30-04-1923
Welcome to season 6 of The British Broadcasting Century Podcast - and our 82nd episode.
Back in our podcast timeline, telling the moment-by-moment origin story of British broadcasting, we reach a bittersweet moment: the BBC moves out of its first studios, the temporary studio on the top floor of Marconi House.
We pay tribute with a look at the Beeb's final day at MH, 30 April 1923 - a broadcast promoting Women's Hour (by a man) and Hawaiian guitar music (hear it here!).
And we spend much of the episode re-examining Auntie's first day at Marconi House - indeed BBC Day 1 - as I've just…
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