1945 in British radio

none October 2023 1945 British radio British television British music This is a list of events from British radio in 1945. Events January No events. February No events. March No events. April 15 April – BBC correspondent Richard Dimbleby accompanies the British 11th Armoured Division to the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, making one of the first reports from there.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/4445811.stm BBC News – In Depth – Audio slideshow: Liberation of Belsen news.bbc.co.uk His description of what he sees ("the world of a nightmare") is so graphic, the BBC declines to broadcast his dispatch for 4 days, relenting only when he threatens to resign. 30 April – William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") records his final (rambling and audibly drunk) English-language propaganda broadcast for Nazi German radio.http://eyewitnesstohistory.com/vohawhaw.htm The last broadcast of Lord Haw Haw, 1945 EyeWitness to History.com 2024-08-30 May 1 May – This evening, Reichssender Hamburg's Flensburg substation, the last shortwave radio station remaining on the air in Germany, interrupts a concert to announce the death of Adolf Hitler. The first place in the UK to hear of this is the BBC Monitoring Service at Caversham Park near Reading, Berkshire. The BBC Forces Programme announces the death as a newsflash in this evening's edition of Music While You WorkMaureen Waller London 1945 John Murray [London] 2020 2004 978-1-529-33815-7 279, 307 and a BBC Home Service broadcast from Glasgow is interrupted by Stuart Hibberd with the news.2005-05-09 War's End Coming Home BBC Radio 4 4 May – Radio Hamburg begins broadcasting from the British occupied zone of Germany, with Wynford Vaughan-Thomas speaking from "Lord Haw-Haw"'s studio for the BBC. On 22 September, the station becomes Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR), the zone's official broadcasting organisation, set up by Hugh Greene.Reiner Pommerin Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945–1995 https://books.google.com/books?id=PS9oAAAAMAAJ 1996 Berg 978-1-85973-100-0 9 7 May – The last German communication to be decoded at Bletchley Park is from a military radio station at Cuxhaven closing down.Gordon Corera Gordon Corera VE Day: Last Nazi message intercepted by Bletchley Park revealed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52583322 BBC 2020-05-08 2020-05-08 At 19:40 this evening, the BBC in the UK announces that the following day will be a holiday, Victory in Europe Day. 8 May – Victory in Europe Day in Western Europe. At 15:00 BST in the UK, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, makes a speech to the nation on the BBC from 10 Downing Street, and at 21:00 King George VI speaks to the British Empire from Buckingham Palace. Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from Lüneburg and Frank Gillard from Kassel.VE Day: 'Do not despair, do not yield' Allan Little https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52522965 BBC 2020-05-08 2020-05-08 Stuart Hibberd reads the midnight news bulletin, marking the official end of hostilities. 14 May – Reuters story broadcast on the BBC Home Service on the discovery of what are thought to be the burned remains of Adolf Hitler's body.Read Donald The power of news: the history of Reuters, 1849–1989 1992 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-821776-3 Oxford; New York This is filed by Reuters correspondent Duncan Hooper from Berlin. 28 May – U.S.-born Irish-raised Nazi propagandist William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured by British forces on the German border. He later stands trial in London for high treason for his earlier wartime broadcasts, is convicted, and hanged in January 1946. 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.Marr Andrew Andrew Marr A History of Modern Britain Pan Macmillan London 2008 5–6 978-0-330-43983-1 July 1 July – For the 50th season the BBC Proms return from their wartime retreat in Bedford back to the Royal Albert Hall in London. The First Night concert includes William Walton's Memorial Fanfare for Henry Wood, as well as a performance of Elgar's Cockaigne (In London Town). 28 July – The BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme ceases broadcasting because the British Forces Network and radio stations of the other Allies are now broadcasting within their zones of occupation in Europe.Grace Alan 1997 This Is the British Forces Network: The Story of Forces Broadcasting in Germany London Alan Sutton Publishing 0-7509-1105-0 https://books.google.com/books?id=_DAbAQAAIAAJ Google Books 29 July – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched, concentrating on the broadcasting of mainstream light music and entertainment, superseding the BBC General Forces Programme within the UK using its 1500 m longwave frequency from the Droitwich Transmitting Station. August 1 August – Family Favourites is the successor to the wartime radio show Forces Favourites, broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the Light Programme in the UK and the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Europe; it runs until 1980. 14 August – Late this evening, the new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, and his Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, broadcast news of the surrender of Japan to the nation and Empire, speaking from 10 Downing Street. September to December No events. Unknown The BBC issues the first Welsh edition of Radio Times.http://www.rts.org.uk/historic-dates-wales Royal Television Society Wales Historic Dates https://web.archive.org/web/20140308213011/http://www.rts.org.uk/historic-dates-wales 2014-03-08 2014-03-08 2014-03-08 Welsh BBC correspondence Wynford Vaughan-Thomas is awarded the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 for his war reports from France. Station debuts 29 July – BBC Light Programme (1945–1967) Debuts 1 August – Family Favourites (1945–1980) 9 October – Today in Parliament (1945–Present)https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34554669 Robert Orchard Today in Parliament at 70: Britain's 'longest-running soap opera' BBC News 2015-10-18 2020-10-31 Continuing radio programmes 1930s In Town Tonight (1933–1960) 1940s Music While You Work (1940–1967)Music While You Work https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/june/music-while-you-work/ www.bbc.com 1 November 2024 Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018) Desert Island Discs (1942–Present) Births 9 January – Bill Heine, American-born radio presenter and cinema owner (died 2019) 20 January – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, cricket commentator (died 2013) 30 March – Johnnie Walker, born Peter Dingley, DJ (died 2024) 25 May – Dave Lee Travis, born David Griffin, DJ 22 August – Pete Atkin, singer-songwriter and radio producer 23 August – Peter Donaldson, Egyptian-born newsreader (died 2015) 15 September – Clive Merrison, Welsh-born actor (Sherlock Holmes) 28 October – Simon Brett, radio producer and scriptwriter and detective fiction writer Ernie Rea, Northern Irish religious broadcaster 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 1945 in British music 1945 in British television 1945 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1945 References Category:Years in British radio Radio