1933 in British radio

none October 2023 1933 British radio British television British music This is a list of events from British radio in 1933. Events 10 March – The BBC holds a memorial concert for its late Director of Music, Percy Pitt, in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London.Jennifer Ruth The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922–1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes https://books.google.com/books?id=CVCtkShvDSkC&pg=PA467 2019-11-11 1999 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-66117-1 467 28 May – Washford transmitting station begins broadcasting the BBC Regional Programme for the West of England.The BBC Year-book 1933 1933 BBC London 867862862 6 August – Benjamin Britten's Phantasy Quartet, Op. 2 (written in 1932 when the composer was an 18-year-old music student) is premiered in a BBC broadcast with Léon Goossens, its dedicatee, as oboist.Schüssler-Bach Kerstin http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail?sl-id=1&musicid=203&langid=2 Britten, Benjamin: Phantasy Quartet op. 2 (1932) Boosey & Hawkes German 2026-07-28Kildea Paul https://books.google.com/books?id=2XuahE-R7gUC&pg=PP99 Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century Penguin UK 2013 978-1-90-832341-5 99–100 16 August – The BBC unveils a Compton organ in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London.Beckwith Roger Lower Ground Floor https://www.orbem.co.uk/bh32/bh32_lg.htm Broadcasting House in the 1930s Old BBC Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories 2013-09-11 2022-11-18 28 August – For the first time, the BBC broadcasts the description of a wanted criminal suspect – Stanley Hobday who has committed murder in the course of a burglary in West Bromwich. He is recognised from the description near Carlisle and in due course tried and executed.Stanley Eric Hobday British Executions http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=544&termRef=Stanley%20Eric%20Hobday 2024-08-28 28 October – Broadcast of the earliest surviving BBC location recording, Night on London’s River: Westminster to the Docks.Radio actuality recordings – Night on London's River 1933 https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/radio_recordings/1930s/2416 Sound and History 2020-11-28 BBC executive Colonel Alan Dawnay begins to meet with the head of MI5, Sir Vernon Kell, to trade information informally on potentially subversive staff.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43754737 bbc.co.uk The vetting files: How the BBC kept out 'subversives' 2018-04-22 2018-04-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20180422000203/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43754737 2018-04-22 live The BBC acquires a roller skating rink in west London and begins its reconstruction as the Maida Vale Studios. Debuts 18 November – In Town Tonight begins on the BBC National Programme.Y national/daventry/1933-11-18#at-19.30 In Town Tonight 1933-11-10 41 528 50 BBC National Programme Births 16 April – Joan Bakewell, broadcaster 12 December – Tony Brandon, presenter References Category:Years in British radio Radio