1925 in British radio

none November 2020 November 2020 1925 British radio British music This is a list of events from British radio in 1925. Events 4 July – The Meteorological Office's Shipping Forecast is first broadcast by the BBC. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-shipping-forecast-broadcast-turns-100 The Shipping Forecast broadcast turns 100 Maritime and Coastguard Agency Gov.uk 2024-01-01 2026-07-27 27 July – The British Broadcasting Company's Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill, Daventry in central England opens as the world's first longwave broadcast radio transmitter (call sign: 5XX), taking over from its Chelmsford facility.Tomalin Norman http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf Daventry Calling the World Caedmon 1998 0-905355-46-6 Whitby 11 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20131224203242/http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf 24 December 2013 dead Births 17 February – Joy Nichols, Australian-born musical comedy performer (died 1992) 25 May – Derek Cooper, food writer and broadcaster (died 2014) 15 June – Richard Baker, broadcaster (died 2018) 19 June – Charlie Drake, comedian (died 2006) 28 July – Kenneth Alwyn, orchestral conductor (died 2020) 8 September – Peter Sellers, comedy actor (died 1980) 19 September – Pete Murray, DJ 22 September – William Franklyn, actor (died 2006) 27 October – Monica Sims, radio executive (died 2018) 11 November – June Whitfield, comedy actress (died 2018) References Category:Years in British radio Radio