1932 in British radio

none October 2023 1932 British radio British television British music The following is a list of events from British radio in 1932. thumb|150px|right|Broadcasting House Events 15 March First BBC radio broadcast from the new Broadcasting House in London;Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 375–376 0-7126-5616-2 all programmes transfer from 15 May. The BBC Dance Orchestra first broadcasts under the direction of Henry Hall.The Man Behind the New BBC Dance Band Radio Times 1932-03-11 May – Radio Luxembourg begins high-powered longwave test transmissions aimed directly at the British Isles (which prove, inadvertently, to be the first radio modification of the ionosphere).https://sites.google.com/alaska.edu/gakonahaarpoon/operations-news Operations News Gakona HAARPoon Alaska 2017-02-19 2022-11-16 15 October – First performance before an audience in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House.Beckwith Roger Lower Ground Floor http://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 17 October – Novelist J. B. Priestley delivers a radio talk "To a Highbrow" (urging listeners to be "broadbrow"), part of an attack on Virginia Woolf and her circle.The Malady of Middlebrow: Virginia Woolf’s Brilliantly Blistering Response to a Patronizing Reviewer Maria Popova https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/11/05/virginia-woolf-middlebrow/ The Marginalian 2026-01-15 30 November – The BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of composer Sir Edward Elgar. 19 December – The BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcastingPenguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 using a shortwave radio facility at its Daventry transmitting station.Norman Tomalin Daventry Calling the World Whitby Caedmon 1998 0-905355-46-6 http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf 2015-05-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20131224203242/http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf 24 December 2013 dead 25 December – Inaugural Royal Christmas Message delivered by King George V from Sandringham House; scheduled for approximately 3:05pm;https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/national/daventry/1932-12-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20141017201953/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/national/daventry/1932-12-25 dead 17 October 2014 Listings National Programme (Daventry) 25 December 1932 BBC Genome BBC 22 November 2020Daventry Christmas Day Radio Times 37 482 23 December 1932 910 https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/70f7db9935e243e3b22f8455e16f347eSeptember 2025 medicmedic the text has been written by Rudyard Kipling. Births 19 January – George MacBeth, Scottish-born poet and radio poetry producer (died 1992) 28 January – Norman de Mesquita, sports commentator (died 2013) 25 April – Shirley Gee, radio dramatist (died 2016) 4 September – Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003) 17 October – David Willey, BBC foreign correspondent (died 2026) Deaths 23 November – Percy Pitt, BBC Director of Music (born 1869) References Category:Years in British radio Radio