1934 in British radio

none December 2020 October 2023 1934 British radio British television British music This is a list of events from British radio in 1934. Events 23 February Edward Elgar dies, leaving unfinished his Symphony No. 3, commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, who will premiere its realised version in 1998. Benjamin Britten's unaccompanied choral variations A Boy Was Born, Op. 3 (written in 1932/3 when the composer was a 19-year-old music student) are premiered in a BBC radio concert of contemporary music with Leslie Woodgate conducting the Wireless Chorus and choirboys of St Mark's, North Audley Street, London.http://www.brittenproject.org/works/BTC753 A Boy was Born Britten Thematic Catalogue 2023-10-24 6 September – The BBC's most powerful long-wave transmitter, Droitwich Transmitting Station, starts transmitting regularly at 200 kilohertz, following test transmissions from 8 May.http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/Reminiscences/Droitwich/droitwich_calling.htm Droitwich Calling John Phillips December 2006 2015-12-03 From 7 October it takes over from Daventry 5XX as the main station radiating the BBC National Programme. 8 October – Alistair Cooke takes over from Oliver Baldwin as the BBC's film critic.Nick Clarke Clarke Nick Alistair Cooke: A Biography Arcade Publishing New York 2000 1-55970-548-5 29 November – Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark at Westminster Abbey, the first wedding to be broadcast live on radio.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 25 December – King George V delivers his third Christmas Message. thumb|King George V at the microphone, Christmas 1934 A former London roller skating rink reopens as the BBC's Maida Vale Studioshttps://books.google.com/books?id=08GhAwAAQBAJ&q=Palace&pg=PA57 Voices from the Ether: The History of Radio Gordon Bathgate 2012 Lulu.com 9781471628610 2018-06-05 which becomes the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The Northern Studio Orchestra is renamed the BBC Northern Orchestra. EKCO introduces its distinctive circular bakelite radio cabinets in the United Kingdom.Jonathan Hill Old Radio Sets Princes Risborough Shire Publications 1993 0-7478-0219-X Shire Album 295 18 Births 10 January – Sheila Tracy (née Lugg), broadcast presenter, previously swing trombonist (died 2014) 4 March – John Dunn, radio presenter (died 2004) 5 June – Bryon Butler, radio football correspondent (died 2001) 26 August – Gordon Clough, radio journalist (died 1996) 18 December – Michael Freedland, journalist, biographer and broadcaster in London (You Don't Have To Be Jewish) (died 2018) Deaths 14 May – Norman Clapham, radio comedian as John Henry, suicide (born 1879)Wireless Comedian's Suicide https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78632479 The Times London 46756 17 May 1934 4 References Category:Years in British radio Radio