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#103 Sept 1923 on the BBC, Rob Roy and Gavin Sutherland
Back in 1923, between SB and RT - that's 'Simultaneous Broadcasting' (networking nationally via landline) and The Radio Times (the BBC listings mag still had the 'The' back then), a month went by...
...But did nothing happen in that month? Of course not!
So between these two bigger landmarks, on this episode we bring you some smaller but notable ones. Also on the Beeb in Aug/Sept 1923:
Rob Roy live from Glasgow - with fight scenes
Reith reads the news... again. Because his mum forgot to listen.
Sir Ernest Rutherford: first public figure to broadcast nationally.
New time signal: weights…
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