S1 Ep188: Lord Gainford - BBC Chair, May 1923
A bit like online, broadcasting started as a ‘techy thing’: radio manufacturers testing their transmissions. One , two, three, testing. Although a few engineers had actually also been rather good on-air, notably Peter Eckersley, they realised that some decent programmes were needed to fuel radio-set sales. Content was king even back then.
Accordingly, on 18th October, 1922, a group of six Brit...
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