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#107 On-Air Criticisms, James Cary and Miranda Hart
October 1923: The BBC's on-air critics go national...
These aren't critics OF the BBC (there were - and are - plenty of those), but critics ON the BBC - a literary critic, a music critic, a drama critic, a film critic... Think Front Row, Barry Norman, The Old Grey Whistle Test, but decades earlier.
These weekly shows went national via simultaneous broadcasting - SB - and the BBC's London-centric regular programming started to take over the regional schedules.
On London 2LO from 14 June 1923 - and nationally on Thursdays from 18 October - was music critic Percy Scholes.
On London 2LO from 18…
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