1925 in British radio
Events
- 27 July – The British Broadcasting Company's Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill, Daventry in central England opens as the world's first longwave broadcast radio transmitter, taking over from its Chelmsford facility.[1]
Births
- 25 May – Derek Cooper, food writer and broadcaster (died 2014)
- 15 June – Richard Baker, broadcaster (died 2018)
- 19 June – Charlie Drake, comedian (died 2006)
- 28 July – Kenneth Alwyn, orchestral conductor (died 2020)
- 8 September – Peter Sellers, comic actor (died 1980)
- 19 September – Pete Murray, DJ
- 22 September – William Franklyn, actor (died 2006)
- 27 October – Monica Sims, radio executive (died 2018)
- 11 November – June Whitfield, comic actress (died 2018)
References
- Tomalin, Norman (1998). Daventry Calling the World (PDF). Whitby: Caedmon. ISBN 0-905355-46-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
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