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4 March – The BBC Television Service broadcasts one of the first plays to be written especially for television, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E. J. Brooke. The production is notable for the use of a camera as the first-person perspective of the play's unseen central character.
Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on Nazi Germany following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September. [5] Shortly after 11.00, Chamberlain announces this news on BBC Radio, speaking from 10 Downing Street. Twenty minutes later, air raid sirens sound in London (a false alarm).
Starlight (UK) November 3, 1936 1939 1946 1949 The Disorderly Room (UK) April 17, 1937 August 20, 1939 For The Children (UK) April 24, 1937 1939 July 7, 1946 1950 Sports Review (UK) April 30, 1937 1939 Telecrime (UK) August 10, 1938 July 25, 1939 October 22, 1946 November 25, 1946 Let's Talk It Over with June Hynd (US) June 21, 1939 September ...
8 November - Channel 5 relaunches 5 News as a single one-hour show, broadcasting from 5pm until 6pm. [75] 2022. 25 April – News UK launches talkTV. [76] The channel features video simulcasts of TalkRadio programming in off-peak hours, but launches with three original programmes - The News Desk, Piers Morgan Uncensored, and The Talk. [77]
19 September – Popular radio comedy show It's That Man Again with Tommy Handley is first broadcast on the BBC Home service, following trial broadcasts from 12 July. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Known as " ITMA ", and also featuring Jack Train and many others, it runs until Handley’s death in 1949 ; [ 8 ] the performers have initially been evacuated to Bristol .
October 1939 events in the United Kingdom (5 P) This page was last ...
During the war, BBC Home Service would air each day from 7.00 am until 12.15 am, with main news bulletins airing at 7.00 am, 8.00 am, 1.00 pm, 6.00 pm, 9.00 pm and midnight. The Home Service continued in this form until the end of World War II.
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