1925 in British radio
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1925.
Events
- 27 July â The British Broadcasting Company's Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill, Daventry in central England opens as the world's first longwave broadcast radio transmitter (call sign: 5XX), taking over from its Chelmsford facility.[1]
Births
- 17 February â Joy Nichols, Australian-born musical comedy performer (died 1992)
- 25 May â Derek Cooper, food writer and broadcaster (died 2014)
- 15 June â Richard Baker, broadcaster (died 2018)
- 19 June â Charlie Drake, comedian (died 2006)
- 28 July â Kenneth Alwyn, orchestral conductor (died 2020)
- 8 September â Peter Sellers, comedy actor (died 1980)
- 19 September â Pete Murray, DJ
- 22 September â William Franklyn, actor (died 2006)
- 27 October â Monica Sims, radio executive (died 2018)
- 11 November â June Whitfield, comedy actress (died 2018)