The British Broadcasting Century with Paul Kerensa
By Paul Kerensa
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Brilliant radio history
Mar 21, 2021
Great independent history of the Beeb. Hidden gems in every episode
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100 Years of the BBC, Radio and Life as We Know It.
Be informed, educated and entertained by the amazing true story of radio’s forgotten pioneers. With host Paul Kerensa, great guests and rare archive from broadcasting’s golden era. Original music by Will Farmer. www.paulkerensa.com/oldradio
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#099 Godfrey Isaacs - The Man Behind The BBC Idea
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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#098 Ireland's First Radio Station... and the BBC News theme album
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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#097 Manchester, Birmingham, Gardening, Radio Circle + a Wireless Elephant: The BBC in August 1923
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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#096 Books on Broadcasting - and the Bodleian Library's 'Listen In' Exhibition
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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#095 Five Gold Airings: Vintage BBC Christmases 1922-42
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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#094 Wireless Manhunts on the BBC - in 1923 and 2023
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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#093 On-Air Symphonies and 'Seeing By Wireless' in June 1923 - and Stuart Prebble
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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#092 The First Sports Broadcasts: from 'Yachts Slowly Drifting' to MCR21
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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#091 The Electrophone: The 1890s' Streaming Device
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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#090 The BBC's First Shakespeare (part 2) & John Henry: First Radio Comedy Personality
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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#089 A History of Election Night Specials: 28 in 102 Years
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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#088 Boycotts, Bands and The Sunday Committee: May 1923 at the BBC
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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#087 The Cello and the Nightingale: A Centenary Celebration
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May 17, 2024 |
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#086 1932 Off-Air Radio Recordings by Mr F.O. Brown of Greenbank
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May 06, 2024 |
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#085 The Earliest BBC Recording and The First Monarch On Air
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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#084 Women's Hour on the BBC: 1923-24
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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#083 The Launch of Savoy Hill: The BBC's New Home, 1 May 1923
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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#082 The BBC at Marconi House: 14-11-1922 to 30-04-1923
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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#081 The Pips at 100! A Brief History of Time at the BBC
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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#080 SPECIAL: The First Religious Broadcast: Re-enacted
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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#079 Three More Authors: Doctor Who | R4 Sunday | Radio 1+2
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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#078 Three Authors on Broadcasting History: Love | Films | Education
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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#077 Loose Ends 2: 1920’s SS Victorian to 1980’s Tardis via Frank Milligan
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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#076 Radio Times at 100 - Part 2
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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#075 (The) Radio Times at 100 - Part 1
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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#074 The BBC and Music: from Percy Pitt to Johnny Beerling
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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#073 Comedy on Air: Hysterical History from The Co-Optimists to Bottom
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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#072 The First Radio Dramatist: The Truth about Phyllis Twigg
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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#071 Yesteryear in Parliament: The BBC vs The Government, April 1923
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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#070 The Press vs the BBC vs the Govt: 1923 + 2023
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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#069 Children’s Hour to Bedtime Hour: Uncles, Aunts and Iggle Piggle
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May 26, 2023 |
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#068 Major Arthur Corbett-Smith: Reith’s Rival
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May 12, 2023 |
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#067 SPECIAL: A Brief History of Coronation Broadcasts
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May 03, 2023 |
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#066 The BBC’s News, Weather and SOS Broadcasts of March 1923
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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#065 A Brief History of the BBC’s Archives
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#064 Farewell Magnet House, Hello... Laundry Baskets? + Jeffrey Holland
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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#063 Glasgow 5SC: The BBC Launches in Scotland
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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#062 Radio’s First Political Debate... and Reeta Chakrabarti
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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#061 The BBC’s Listings Ban... and Gareth Gwynn’s Ministry of Happiness
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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#060 A History of Religious Broadcasting: 100 Years of God on the Beeb
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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#059 100 Years in 100 Minutes, part 3 (1988-2022)
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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#058 100 Years in 100 Minutes, part 2 (1955-87)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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#057 100 Years in 100 Minutes, part 1 (1922-54)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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#056 BBC100, Poetry Please?... and Roger Bolton
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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#055 The First Shakespeare on the BBC (pt 1) + Happy BBCentenary! (also pt1)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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#054 The First Welsh Broadcast... and The Exhibitionists!
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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#053 SPECIAL: Radio as Propaganda in WW2... plus Peter Eckersley & Hilda Matheson
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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#052 SPECIAL: Auntie’s War - with Edward Stourton
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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#051 SPECIAL: Early Black British Broadcasters - with Stephen Bourne
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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#050 Hilda Matheson and the Radio Girls of Savoy Hill - with Sarah-Jane Stratford
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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#049 It’s That Man Again! Peter Eckersley - 1st BBC Chief Engineer
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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#048 Daimler, 5MG and 2BP: The In-Car Radios of 1923
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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#047 ”Hark, The Engine’s Failing”: The Closedown of 2MT Writtle
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#046 Justin Webb on Leonard Crocombe... and January 1923
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May 09, 2022 |
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#045 2ZY Manchester and 5IT Birmingham Calling... with Jude Montague
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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#044 Hanso Idzerda and The Dutch Concerts - with Gordon Bathgate
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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#043 The First Outside Broadcast: A Night at the Opera!
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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#042 Drops Mic, Drops Callsign
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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#041 The BBC’s First Female Employee: Isobel Shields
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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#040 New Year 1923, Magnet House: ”Pandemonium Reigned!”
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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#039 SPECIAL: The Twelve Airplays of Christmas (with Ben Baker)
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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#038 SPECIAL: What Marconi Thought of Broadcasting... + 1920s ads
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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#037 SPECIAL: The Prehistory of the BBC (extended cut)
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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#036 Out with the Old: The First BBC New Year’s Eve
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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#035 Reith Begins!
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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#034 Newcastle‘s Christmas Launch: Let It 5NO, Let It 5NO, Let It 5NO!
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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#033 The First Couple of Marconi House: December 1922
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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#032 The Licence Fee Problem... of 1922
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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#031 The Hunt for BBC Premises, Burrows vs Marconi + Prof Gabriele Balbi
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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#030 The First BBC Staff: Reith, Burrows, Lewis, Anderson, White (+ David Hamilton)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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#029 The First Listings: from Norman Long to Neville Chamberlain
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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#028 The First BBC Entertainers... and Lee Mack
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May 24, 2021 |
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#027 Season 2 Trailer (aka Season 1 Recap)
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May 15, 2021 |
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#026 Percy Edgar - BBC and the Midlands from Day 2 to 1948
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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#025 SPECIAL: Part 2 of 1922‘s Parliamentary Broadcasting Debates
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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#024 SPECIAL: Part 1 of 1922‘s Parliamentary Broadcasting Debates
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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#023 Gertrude Donisthorpe: Britain‘s 1st DJ?
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#022 SPECIAL: Capt H.J. Round, a speech from Dec 1952
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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#021 Loose Ends (with Gareth Jones)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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#020 The First BBC Christmas: From Carols to Kings
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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#019 Day 2 of the BBC: Our Friends in the North
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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#018 The First BBC Broadcast: "Hullo, Hullo!"
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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#017 The Eve of the BBC: A Partly Political Broadcast
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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#016 Live at the Apo2LO: Our 1st Broadcast Comedian
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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#015 John Reith: Mastermind
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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#014 1922's British Wireless Exhibition: Tomorrow's World
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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#013 Inform, Educate, Entertain: Have I Got News For You?
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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#012 The Pre-BBC 6/Music, part 2: 1 BBC
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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#011 The Pre-BBC 6/Music, part 1: 2 BBCs
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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#010 2ZY Manchester: Are You Sitting Comfortably? (with Chris Jarvis)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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#009 2LO London Calling
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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#008 2MT Writtle: Radio Active
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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#007 Peter Eckersley: 1922's Pre-Goon Goon
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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#006 William Le Queux: Power to the People
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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#005 Arthur Burrows: 1920's All-Request Pirate (with Emperor Rosko)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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#004 Happy 100th, Radio! Melba: The Voice
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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#003 Earlier... with Winifred Sayer
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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#002 Ditcham and Round: Record Breakers
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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#001 Morse to Marconi: Pick of the Pioneers
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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#000 Trailer: The British Broadcasting Century
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Jun 02, 2020 |