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1931 in British radio
Overview of the events of 1931 in British radio
This is a list of events from British radio in 1931.
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- 10 January–4 April – Behind the Screen, a serial written by members of the Detection Club, is broadcast on the BBC National Programme.
- 17 May – Moorside Edge transmitting station in west Yorkshire begins broadcasting the BBC North Regional Programme on 626 kHz and, from 12 July, the BBC National Programme on 995 kHz.[1]
- 8 September – W. B. Yeats makes his first BBC talk, an introduction to his version of King Oedipus broadcast from its Belfast studio.[2]
- 13 September – Westerglen transmitting station begins broadcasting the BBC Regional Programme for Scotland.[3]
- Autumn – The BBC subsumes all its adult education radio broadcasts under the title The Changing World transmitted in the early evening and lasting around 25 minutes each; presenters will include T. S. Eliot, Harold Nicolson, Julian Huxley and William Beveridge who also author accompanying pamphlets.[4]
- February – Patricia Greene, actress
- 2 February – Les Dawson, comedian (died 1993)
- 18 February – Ned Sherrin, broadcaster and entertainer (died 2007)
- 7 June – Michael Bakewell, radio and television producer and scriptwriter (died 2023)
- 9 December – Ian McIntyre, Scottish journalist and BBC Radio executive (died 2014)
- Edward Taylor, scriptwriter
- McCarthy, Clive (28 May 2007). "Development of the BBC A.M. Transmitter Network" (PDF). bbceng.info. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- Gould, Warwick (1987). "W. B. Yeats's Unpublished Talk on His Version of King Oedipus Broadcast from the BBC Belfast Studio on 8 September 1931". Yeats Annual. 5: 195–199. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-06841-8_14.
- Radio Times (11 September 1931), Other Stations' Programmes, vol. 32, p. 565
- Jones, Allan (2013). "The Changing World: The BBC’s educational response to the economic crisis of 1931". In History of the Media in Transition Periods, 4-6 Sep 2013, Catholic University of Portugal/Lisbon, ECREA – European Communication Research and Education Association. via Open University.