1926 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1926.

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Events
  • 16 January – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.[1]
  • 4 May – The British Broadcasting Company broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are published due to the general strike.
  • 7 October – The first edition of Choral Evensong is relayed by the British Broadcasting Company from Westminster Abbey; it will still be broadcast regularly as of 2022 as the BBC's longest-running outside broadcast programme.[2][3]
  • 31 December – The British Broadcasting Company is dissolved and its assets transferred to the non-commercial and crown-chartered British Broadcasting Corporation.[4]

Births
  • 22 February – Kenneth Williams, comic actor (died 1988)
  • 19 May – David Jacobs, broadcast presenter (died 2013)
  • 23 May – Desmond Carrington, disc jockey and actor (died 2017)
  • 27 August – Pat Coombs, comic stooge (died 2002)
  • 8 September – Ronald Mason, radio drama producer (died 1997)
  • 31 October – Jimmy Savile, disc jockey, broadcast presenter, philanthropist and serial sex offender (died 2011)

References
  1. "The BBC Radio Panic, 1926". Museum of Hoaxes. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. "Choral Evensong". BBC. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  3. "Radio Times listing". BBC Genome Project. 23 July 2018.
  4. "A Message from the Earl of Clarendon | The New B.B.C. -- 'A Transition Simple and Efficient.'". Radio Times. Vol. 14, no. 170. 31 December 1926. p. 85.
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