1941 in British radio

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This is a list of events from British radio in 1941.

Events

14 January – In a BBC radio broadcast from London, Victor de Laveleye asks all Belgians to use the "V sign" as a rallying sign, being the first letter of victoire (victory) in French and of vrijheid (freedom) in Dutch, the beginning of a subversive campaign which spreads across occupied Europe.[1]
February – BBC begins construction of an emergency broadcasting facility in the disused tunnel of the Clifton Rocks Railway in Bristol.[2]
17 March – The BBC European service moves its London headquarters from a temporary home in Maida Vale Studios to Bush House.[1]
May – Arthur Bliss joins the BBC's overseas music service.[3]
6 August – C. S. Lewis begins a series of BBC radio broadcasts that will be adapted as Mere Christianity.[4]
November – Yorkshireman Wilfred Pickles first reads the national news bulletin, in his regional accent.[1]
30 December – The Brains Trust first broadcast as Any Questions? on the BBC Home Service.[5]

January – John Rowe, actor
24 March – Humphrey Barclay, comedy producer
10 May – Chris Denning, presenter and sex offender[6]
20 July – Ed Doolan, Australian-born presenter (died 2018)
28 July – Peter Marinker, voice actor
4 August – Martin Jarvis, voice and stage actor
30 August – Sue MacGregor, presenter[7]
13 October – Christopher Lee, BBC News correspondent, historian and radio documentary writer (died 2021)[8]
5 December – Sheridan Morley, theatrical critic/biographer and broadcaster (died 2007)

"1940s". About BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
"History". Clifton Rocks Railway. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
"New BBC Director of Music". The Times. London. 1 April 1942. p. 7.
Perry, Mike W. (1 July 1998). "Publication History of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity". C. S. Lewis Web. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
"The Brains Trust". Radio Days. Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
"Denning: Going against social norms". The Prague Post. 10 September 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013.
"Presenters – Sue MacGregor". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 28 June 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
Press Association (17 February 2021). "This Sceptred Isle writer Christopher Lee dies aged 79". Evening Express. Aberdeen. Retrieved 17 February 2021.

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