1944 in British radio

none October 2023 1944 British radio British television British music This is a list of events from British radio in 1944. Events January No events. February 27 February – BBC General Forces Programme replaces the Forces Programme to provide entertainment suitable for American forces in Britain as well as British military and civilian audiences, including a large number of American network and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programmes. It is also broadcast on shortwave frequencies of the BBC Overseas Service. March 6 March – The BBC transmits a ballad opera, The Man Who Went to War, concerning an African American soldier, written by Langston Hughes and D. G. Bridson and presented by Paul Robeson.1944 Robert Seatter Broadcasting Britain: 100 years of the BBC London Dorling Kindersley 2022 9780241567548 10 March? – Lifting of (partial) marriage bar on women working at the BBC.A Marriage Bar of Convenience? The BBC and Married Women's Work 1923–39 Kate Murphy 2014-12-01 Twentieth Century British History 25 4 533–561 10.1093/tcbh/hwu002 25608371 http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33051/3/BBC%20Marriage%20Bar%20-%20second%20revision%20-%20final.pdf April April – The American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) is established, transmitting from Britain in English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian to resistance movements in mainland Europe. May No events. June June – Utility radio ("War-time Civilian Receiver"), produced by the radio industry under government direction, is available for sale.Austin J. Ruddy The Home Front 1939–1945 in 100 Objects Barnsley Frontline Books 2019 9-781-52674-086-1 172–3 5 June – One day before D-Day, the BBC transmits coded messages (including the second line of a poem by Paul Verlaine and Hubert Gregg's "I'm Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London")https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/01/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Hubert Gregg Tim McDonald The Guardian London 2004-04-01 from Britain to underground resistance fighters in France warning that the invasion of mainland Europe is about to begin.M. R. D. Foot Foot M. R. D. SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940–46 London Pimlico 1999 0-7126-6585-4 143Edward Stourton (journalist) Edward Stourton Auntie's War: the BBC during the Second World War London Doubleday 2017 978-0-857-52332-7 6 June – D-Day: The 08:00 BBC news bulletin announces that paratroops have landed in France (reporter Guy Byam is among them). 17 BBC reporters are embedded with the invasion forces. At 09:32 John Snagge begins reading announcements of the landings "on the northern coast of France", broadcasting over BBC transmitters to home and overseas audiences and introducing a message from General Eisenhower.D-Day Broadcasts https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/june/d-day-broadcasts/ BBC 100 BBC 2022 2022-04-29 At 13:00, the first eyewitness report, recorded on a bomber, is broadcast.David Hendy D-Day https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/ww2/d-day/ BBC 100 BBC 2022 2022-04-29 The King speaks to the nation at 21:00. Reports of the landings are carried by around 725 of the 914 broadcasting stations in the United States. 7 June – BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme begins broadcasting to troops of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force on 14 metres (583 kHz) providing a programme dominated by cabaret and swing music.Martinsen Svenn http://www.northernstar.no/afrs.htm Armed Forces Radio Stations Radio Northern Star 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20060314120507/http://www.northernstar.no/afrs.htm 2006-03-14 2026-05-02 Wayback MachineMillward David Morale-raising radio from the depths of Broadcasting House The Daily Telegraph 2004-06-05 London 0307-1235 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1463641/Morale-raising-radio-from-the-depths-of-Broadcasting-House.html subscription July 28 July – Sir Henry Wood, aged 75, conducts his last Promenade Concert, evacuated to the Corn Exchange, Bedford,Jubilee Prom 1944-07-28 The Yorkshire Post Leeds from the rural B.B.C. studio to which the concerts have been transferred. three weeks before his death. August 28 August – The BBC begins broadcasting in Dutch to Indonesia and in French to southeast Asia.http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1944.htm Chronomedia: 1944 Chronomedia Terra Media 2016-03-01 September 17–26 September – Battle of Arnhem: BBC correspondents Guy Byam and Stanley Maxted report from the scene.Martin Bowman Shrinking Perimeter https://books.google.com/books?id=2JTwAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 2013 Pen and Sword Barnsley 978-1-78159-177-2 179–1963-05-11 Stanley Maxted: Former Singer Covered Plight Of Red Devils The Globe Toronto 2 20 September – Yehudi Menuhin gives the first British performance of Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto from Bedford, in the opening concert of a tour with the B.B.C. Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. October No events. November No events. December 31 December – A live BBC broadcast of a service from St Paul's Cathedral, London, includes the background sound of a V-2 rocket.Maureen Waller London 1945: life in the debris of war John Murray [London] 2020 2004 978-1-529-33815-7 18–49 Debuts 4 January – Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (BBC General Forces Programme) (1944–1954) 27 February – Variety Bandbox (BBC General Forces Programme) (1944–1952) 6 June – War Report (BBC Home Service) Continuing radio programmes 1930s In Town Tonight (1933–1960) 1940s Music While You Work (1940–1967)Music While You Work https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/june/music-while-you-work/ www.bbc.com 1 November 2024 Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018) Desert Island Discs (1942–Present) Births 2 February – Andrew Davis, orchestral conductor (died 2024) 9 May – Tony Prince, "The Royal Ruler", born Thomas Whitehead, DJ 12 May – Brian Kay, bass singer and radio music presenter 5 June – Nigel Rees, radio broadcaster 28 October – Gerry Anderson, Northern Irish radio broadcaster (died 2014) November – Jim Eldridge, scriptwriter 25 December – Kenny Everett, born Maurice Cole, DJ (died 1995) Deaths 22 June – Kent Stevenson, war reporter (shot down while flying on an air raid) 19 August – Sir Henry Wood, orchestral conductor (born 1869) See also 1944 in British music 1944 in British television 1944 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1944 References Category:Years in British radio Radio