June 1923 at the BBC saw the first symphony concerts on-air (with an 'augmented orchestra'), musical criticism from Percy Scholes, 2,500 voices broadcast at once, and new staff led by Admiral Charles Carpendale as Reith's deputy. Plus Scot John Logie Bair

Episode 92The First Sports Broadcasts: from 'Yachts Slowly Drifting' to MCR21Our moment-by-moment origin story of British broadcasting reaches 6th June 1923 - and what's sometimes thought to be the BBC's first sports broadcast: author Edgar Wallace gi

Episode 91 goes back over 130 years to the 'broadcasting' device that far predates radio broadcasting. But the same ideas were there: entertainment, religion, news even, brought to your home, sent one-to-many, live from West End churches and London's chur

Is this the first full-length Shakespeare on the BBC I see before me? Yes it is. And the first radio comedy personality, in John Henry.We're in late May 1923 - 28th to 31st to be precise - and the BBC has suffering from a boycott of theatre producers. P

Vote The British Broadcasting Century!Episode 89 is our Election Night Special special, covering Britain's 28 general election results broadcasts over 102 years.Broadcasting in both USA and UK have both launched were pretty much launched with election

On episode 88, it's May 1923, and the six-month-old BBC is settling into its new home at Savoy Hill. But it's not all plain sailing.This time, 2-24 May 1923 is retold via press cuttings (thanks to our Newspaper Detective Andrew Barker), showing us that:

100 years ago the weekend of this podcast, the Cello and the Nightingale became one of the most cherished broadcasts in radio history. It first took place on 19 May 1924, live from the Surrey garden of cellist Beatrice Harrison. In this centenary special

On the previous episode we explored the only 1920s BBC recording (that we know of), recorded off-air by Mr Jones of Croydon.This time on episode 86, we encounter the only other off-air radio recordings of the interwar years (that I know of): the 1932 re

On 23 April 1924, a landmark broadcast took place - the biggest so far. And on day of podcast release, it's the centenary!100 years ago at time of writing, King George V opened the Empire Exhibition at Wembley, becoming the first monarch to broadcast.It

When Dr Kate Murphy became a BBC's Woman's Hour producer in 1993, the received wisdom was that women's programming began in 1946, when Woman's Hour launched.Kate did some digging in the archives, and discovered the long lost tale of the early BBC's Wome