1948 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1948.

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Events

January

February

  • No events.

March

April

May to September

  • No events.

October

  • 12 October – Topical debate programme Any Questions? is first broadcast on the West of England Home Service[3] chaired by Freddie Grisewood; originally intended to run for six fortnightly editions only, it will still be on the air weekly (on BBC Radio 4 nationally) 75 years later.

November

  • No events.

December

  • 26 December – The first series of the BBC's annual Reith Lectures, Bertrand Russell on Authority and the Individual, begins broadcasting on the Home Service.[4]
  • 28 December – For the second series of Take It from Here, writers Muir and Norden begin to adopt its familiar three-part sketch show format.[5][6]

Undated

Debuts

Programme endings

Continuing radio programmes

1930s

1940s

Births

See also

References

  1. "Sports Report at 70: Presenters' memories, royal recognition & THAT theme tune". BBC Sport. 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. Doctor, Jenny (2013). "Vaughan Williams, Boult, and the BBC". In Frogley, Alain; Thomson, Aidan J. (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams. Cambridge University Press. pp. 249–274. doi:10.1017/CCO9781139043243.017.
  3. Kynaston, David (2007). Austerity Britain 1945–1951. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-7985-4.
  4. "1940s" (PDF). The BBC Story. BBC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
  5. "Take It From Here". British Comedy. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  6. McKay, Mark (7 February 2009). "Radio: Take It From Here". Laughterlog.com. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  7. Kennedy, Michael (1987). Adrian Boult. London: Hamish Hamilton. p. 215. ISBN 0-333-48752-4.
  8. "Philip Jackson". Aveleyman.com. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
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