1926 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1926.

Events

  • 16 January – A British Broadcasting Company radio play by Ronald Knox about workers' revolution in London causes a panic among those who have not heard the preliminary announcement that it is a satire on broadcasting.[1]
  • 4 May – The British Broadcasting Company broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are published due to the general strike. John Reith, the BBC's general manager, resists government attempts to take it over during the strike.[2]
  • 4 September – Opening of first Radiolympia show of consumer radio apparatus at Olympia, London. The first mains-powered (AC) radio receiver, the Gambrell Baby Grand, is launched.[3]
  • 7 October – The first edition of Choral Evensong is relayed by the British Broadcasting Company from Westminster Abbey; it will still be broadcast regularly as of 2024 as the BBC's longest-running outside broadcast programme.[4][5]
  • 31 December – The British Broadcasting Company is dissolved and its assets transferred to the non-commercial and crown-chartered British Broadcasting Corporation.[6]

Births

  • 27 January – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born flautist, radio broadcaster, writer and theme tune composer (died 2003)
  • 22 February – Kenneth Williams, comic actor (died 1988)
  • 19 May – David Jacobs, broadcast presenter (died 2013)
  • 23 May – Desmond Carrington, disc jockey and actor (died 2017)
  • 27 August – Pat Coombs, comic stooge (died 2002)
  • 8 September – Ronald Mason, radio drama producer (died 1997)
  • 31 October – Jimmy Savile, disc jockey, broadcast presenter, philanthropist and serial sex offender (died 2011)

References

  1. ^ "The BBC Radio Panic, 1926". Museum of Hoaxes. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. ^ Heffer, Simon (2023). Sing as we go: Britain between the wars. London: Hutchinson Heinemann. pp. 256–8. ISBN 978-1-529-15264-7.
  3. ^ Hill, Jonathan (1993). Old Radio Sets. Shire Album 295. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. pp. 12–14. ISBN 0-7478-0219-X.
  4. ^ "Choral Evensong". BBC. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Radio Times listing". BBC Genome Project. 23 July 2018.
  6. ^ "A Message from the Earl of Clarendon | The New B.B.C. -- 'A Transition Simple and Efficient.'". Radio Times. Vol. 14, no. 170. 31 December 1926. p. 85.
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