A radio outside-broadcaster prepares his equipment.
The popular radio and stage comedian Arthur Askey at the microphone at the EMI Studios in Abbey Road, north west London.
From left to right: Fred Yule, Joan Harben, Hugh Morton, Lind Joyce, Tommy Handley, Diana Morrison, Derek Gyler, Hattie Jackes and Jack Train during rehearsals for the radio show “ITMA” in London
A radio outside-broadcaster prepares his equipment.
04/08/1948
The popular radio and stage comedian Arthur Askey at the microphone at the EMI Studios in Abbey Road, north west London.
24/01/1949
From left to right: Fred Yule, Joan Harben, Hugh Morton, Lind Joyce, Tommy Handley, Diana Morrison, Derek Gyler, Hattie Jackes and Jack Train during rehearsals for the radio show “ITMA” in London
25/09/1947
Tommy Handley and Hattie Jackes, during rehearsals for the radio show “Itma” in London
25/9/47
On this Day in History – King Edward VIII tells Prime Minsiter Satnley baldwin that he intends to marry the American divorcee Wallace Simpson.
This photo is of the King announcing his intentions to Abdicate the throne so he could marry Wallace Simpson.
13/11/1936
Vocalist Vera Lynn on stage at Grosvenor House, London, for the 1949 National Radio Awards presented to popular broadcasters.
12/01/1950
Microphone and umbrella in hand, Manchester born broadcaster Jessica Dunning makes an outside broadcast (from a position near Buckingham Palace) in an audition for commentators for the Coronation. It is thought women may be better able to handle some aspects of the day’s ceremonies.
21/02/1953
A wartime picture of Princess Elizabeth (right) and Princess Margaret after they broadcast on “Children’s Hour” from Buckingham Palace.
01/11/1940
A view of the newly-built BBC Broadcasting House in a wet central London.
13/08/1932
A scene in a 1930s BBC recording studio showing Christopher Stone, wearing a dinner jacket, bidding listeners ‘Good Evening’.
01/07/1933
The Beatles singing together during a recording session for the BBC radio programme ‘Easy Beat’
10/10/1963
George Robey and Alma Adair giving a wireless rehearsal from the Covent Garden Review “You’d be surprised”
18/01/1923
Syndey and Lesley Piddington, at their London home, who now have 20 million British radio listeners tuned in to their thought transference act.
25 Aug 1949
A portrait of a Miss Partridge who Assembles wireless radios in her home in Exeter.
5/11/1922
Derby County captain Jack Nicholas (second l) steps up to the microphone with the FA Cup to give his opinion on his team’s extra time victory
27 Apr 1946
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