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Winston and Clementine Churchill with Free French boys
Winston and Clementine Churchill with Free French Forces boys, aged between 16 and 20, at Downing Street. The boys crossed the English Channel one dark night in canoes, in a dangerous 36-hour trip

Monitoring radio stations for news to rush to editors Date: 1941

High definition television, scene from new opera, Mr Pickwick, with music by Albert Coates, produced by Vladimir Rosing, presented by Dallas Bower

Broadcasting soon after an air raid, WW2
Broadcasting soon after an air raid, with bombed buildings in the background, during WW2 Date: 1941

BBC staff take turns firewatching on roof, WW2
BBC staff take turns firewatching on the roof during WW2 Date: 1941

BBC Late Low Definition Television Control Room. On the right is the mirror-drum projection scanner, on the left are the two checking receivers

BBC Late Low Definition Television Studio looking towards the Control Room. The large black curtain screened the orchestra and their lights from the photo-electric cells

Cover design, BBC at War booklet by Antonia White, WW2
Cover design, BBC at War booklet by Antonia White Date: 1941

Bush House, Kingsway, London. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Good Night, Forces
The Caption is Good Night Forces. This is a play on the closing words of BBC Forces Radio which broadcast to the BEF. It began in 1940 and finished in 1944 well before this card was posted

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Monday Night at Eight
Even though the war is over, coal rationing continued so the fire is unlikely to be lit. The caption Monday night at Eight refers to a regular entertainment show broadcast by the BBC Home Service

BBC Children in Need, Lands End, Cornwall
BBC Children in Need, Lands End Hotel, Lands End, Cornwall. The bearded man seated at the centre is Peter John de Savary (b.1944), English entrepreneur

Elizabeth Cowell by Madame Yevonde
Elizabeth Cowell (1912 - 1998), British broadcaster and the first woman television announcer by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1940

Three singers, BBC Dance Band, Broadcasting House
Three male singers with BBC Dance Band at Broadcasting House, London. 1935

BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London
The newly built BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London. 1935

Creully Chateau BBC Radio Studio Normandy
The BBC set up its studio here on 19 June and it was used by American, Canadian and French broadcasters. The broadcasts went to the General Forces Progtamme

Reginald Foresythe and Elisabeth Welch broadcasting for BBC radio in Starlight. Reginald Foresythe (1907-1958) British jazz pianist, arranger

Hutch in the BBC radio programme Caribbean Carnival with The Pilgrim Chorus. Leslie A. Hutchinson (1900-1969) known as Hutch was a Grenada-born singer and pianist

Jasmine Bligh, television announcer
Jasmine Lydia Bligh (20 May 1913 21 July 1991), one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s. Along with Leslie Mitchell and Elizabeth Cowell

Pictures on the wireless! New wonder for B. B. C audience 1928
Diagram showing the new way in which the B.B.C will broadcast photographs and drawings. 1928

Tony Blackburn - Radio DJ Date: 1970s - 1980s

Thomas Power O Connor, Irish MP
Thomas Power O Connor (1848-1929), Irish journalist and nationalist MP, seen here at the BBC for the radio broadcast of his Reminiscences of 45 years in the House of Commons. 1923

BBC Radio broadcaster R F Palmer (Uncle Rex)
BBC Radio broadcaster R F Palmer, known affectionately as Uncle Rex. 1923

BBC Broadcasting House, Waiting Room on 3rd Floor
BBC Broadcasting House, May 1935, Waiting Room on 3rd Floor. 1935

BBC Broadcasting House, Studio 6D for Effects
BBC Broadcasting House, May 1935, Studio 6D for Effects. 1935

BBC Broadcasting House, Studio 3D for Talks
BBC Broadcasting House, May 1935, Studio 3D for Talks. 1935

BBC Broadcasting House, Concert Hall from stage
BBC Broadcasting House in May 1935, the Concert Hall viewed from the stage. 1935

Television magazine cover, April 1932, The Worlds First Television Journal, listing BBC television programmes. 1932

The BBC transmission mast at Dodford, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s

The Eyes of the Nation, the BBC television aerials on the Museum Television Exchange, London. Date: 1950s

Lilli Marlene - My Lilli of the Lamplight Music Sheet - Music Sheet. Date: 1944

Simon Groom and Goldie, BBC Blue Peter
Simon Groom (b.1950), BBC Blue Peter presenter, with Goldie the golden retriever and a group of children. Date: circa 1980s

Winston Churchill in BBC radio broadcast, 1940
Winston Churchill in a BBC radio broadcast in 1940. The back of the photograph states he is, " the broadcaster whose voice inspired the civilised world

Churchill, BBC broadcast 1943
The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, delivering an international broadcast from the White House, 14th May 1943. The broadcast marked the anniversary of the British Home Guard. Date: 1943

The Men who fought at Arnhem, WW2
The men who fought at Arnhem in a struggle against the odds during the Second World War. A double page spread of seven photographs, picturing Major-General Urquhart

Foley House, Portland Place, London, on the corner of Duchess Street, just north of where BBC Broadcasting House now stands. Date: 18th century

Mike Read with Radio 1 Roadshow group
Mike Read (left), radio DJ and presenter, with a BBC Radio 1 Roadshow group

LCC-LFB Wilfred Pickles (BBC) at Fire Brigade HQ
The BBCs Have a Go radio programme visited the London Fire Brigade with its host, Wilfred Pickles. The picture shows the radio broadcast from the HQs lecture theatre

Raymond Glendenning (1907-1974) BBC radio sports commentator, here commentating on the Park Rangers v Swansea match

Henry Hall - Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra
Henry Hall (1898-1989) - British Bandleader and Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra Date: circa 1935

Elizabeth Cowell at the BBC
Given its access to sensitive information, the BBC had to be on the lookout for potential spies during the Second World War

Music cover, Rags, words by Allan Flynn, music by Jack Egan, featured by Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra. 1935

Robert Morley and Michael North on a train
Robert Morley (1908-1992), British actor, and Michael North (Charles Edward Fletcher Stokes, 1902-1960), BBC producer and light music composer

Music cover, The Twilight Waltz, Jack Payne
Music cover, The Twilight Waltz, by Jimmy Kennedy and Walter Dobson, featured by Jack Payne and his BBC Dance Orchestra. 1931

Elizabeth Cowell - television presenter by Yevonde
Elizabeth Cowell (19121998) was a British broadcaster and the first woman television announcer. Pictured studying a portrait taken of herself in 1933 before she became a radio

Mary Agnes Hamilton
Miss Mary Agnes Hamilton(1884-1966), politician and author, Labour MP for Blackburn from 1929 to 1931. Pictured here in 1932 at the time of her appointment to the Board of Govenors of the BBC. 1932

TV Filming, 1940S
A BBC television studio at Alexandra Palace, London : a musical spectacular is seen in the course of filming Date: 1946

Demolition work in Langham Place, London, in preparation for the construction of BBC Broadcasting House. All Souls Church stands just beyond on the left. Date: circa 1928

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