1945 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1945.

List of years in British radio (table)
In British television
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In British music
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Events

January

  • No events.

February

  • No events.

March

  • No events.

April

May

June

  • 4 June – Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a broadcast speech during the 1945 United Kingdom general election campaign, claims that a future socialist government "would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo". His eventually successful opponent Clement Attlee responds the next night by ironically thanking the prime minister for demonstrating to people the difference between Churchill the great wartime leader and Churchill the peacetime politician.[5]

July

August

September to December

  • No events.

Unknown

Station debuts

Debuts

Continuing radio programmes

1930s

1940s

Births

Deaths

  • 3 February – Guy Byam, war reporter (shot down while flying on an air raid)
  • 18 September – C. H. Middleton, gardening broadcaster (born 1886)

See also

References

  1. "BBC News - In Depth - Audio slideshow: Liberation of Belsen". news.bbc.co.uk.
  2. Pommerin, Reiner (1996). Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1995. Berg. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-85973-100-0.
  3. Corera, Gordon (8 May 2020). "VE Day: Last Nazi message intercepted by Bletchley Park revealed". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  4. Little, Allan (8 May 2020). "VE Day: 'Do not despair, do not yield'". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  5. Marr, Andrew (2008). A History of Modern Britain. London: Pan Macmillan. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0-330-43983-1.
  6. "Historic Dates". Royal Television Society Wales. 8 March 2014. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  7. Orchard, Robert (18 October 2015). "Today in Parliament at 70: Britain's 'longest-running soap opera'". BBC News. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
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