1929 in British radio

none November 2020 November 2020 1929 British radio British television British music This is a list of events from British radio in 1929. Events April – Peter Eckersley is forced to resign as chief engineer of the BBC because of his affair with Dorothy "Dolly" Clark, estranged wife of BBC programme planner and conductor Edward Clark, and then divorcing his own wife.http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I29172&ged=auden-bicknell.ged [Frances] Dorothy Stephen W. H. Auden – 'Family Ghosts' 2023-12-10 2013-10-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20131019161957/http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I29172&ged=auden-bicknell.ged dead Wayback Machinehttps://books.google.com/books?id=CVCtkShvDSkC&q=clark&pg=PA127 Jennifer Ruth Doctor The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922–1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes Cambridge University Press 1999 052166117X 6 November – Week in Westminster debuts on the BBC Home Service; it will still be running more than 90 years later. Tatsfield Receiving Station – formally the BBC Engineering Measurement and Receiving Stationhttp://bbceng.info/Operations/Receivers/Tatsfield/BBC_Tatsfield_March%201961.pdf The BBC Engineering Measurement and Receiving Station at Tatsfield BBC Engineering Information Department 1961 – begins operation on the North Downs in Surrey.Pawley Edward BBC Engineering 1922–1972 BBC Publications 1972 0563121270 Welsh language radio begins to be broadcast from the BBC's Daventry transmitter.Asa Briggs Asa Briggs The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume II: The Golden Age of Wireless https://books.google.com/books?id=bdfNTH-jrrIC&pg=PA298 1995 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-212930-7 298 A BBC production of Pirandello's The Man with the Flower in His Mouth is probably the first of many radio plays in which John Gielgud will appear.Croall Jonathan Jonathan Croall 2000 Gielgud – A Theatrical Life, 1904–2000 London Methuen 978-0-413-74560-6 544 Births 13 January – Colin Morris (died 2018), Methodist minister and religious broadcaster. 27 April – Derek Chinnery (died 2015), British radio controller. 19 July – Denis Goodwin (suicide 1975), English comedy scriptwriter and radio presenter. 25 September – Ronnie Barker (died 2005), English comic actor. 25 November – Tim Gudgin (died 2017), English sports results announcer. 29 November – Derek Jameson (died 2012), English newspaper editor and broadcaster. 28 December – Brian Redhead (died 1994), English radio current affairs presenter. References Category:Years in British radio Radio