1932 in British radio
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The following is a list of events from British radio in 1932.
Events
- 15 March
- First BBC radio broadcast from the new Broadcasting House in London;[1] all programmes transfer from 15 May.
- The BBC Dance Orchestra first broadcasts under the direction of Henry Hall.[2]
- May â Radio Luxembourg begins high-powered longwave test transmissions aimed directly at the British Isles (which prove, inadvertently, to be the first radio modification of the ionosphere).[3]
- 15 October â First performance before an audience in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House.[4]
- 17 October â Novelist J. B. Priestley delivers a radio talk "To a Highbrow" (urging listeners to be "broadbrow"), part of an attack on Virginia Woolf and her circle.[5]
- 30 November â The BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of composer Sir Edward Elgar.
- 19 December â The BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting[6] using a shortwave radio facility at its Daventry transmitting station.[7]
- 25 December â Inaugural Royal Christmas Message delivered by King George V from Sandringham House; scheduled for approximately 3:05pm;[8][9] the text has been written by Rudyard Kipling.
Births
- 19 January â George MacBeth, Scottish-born poet and radio poetry producer (died 1992)
- 28 January â Norman de Mesquita, sports commentator (died 2013)
Deaths
- 23 November â Percy Pitt, BBC Director of Music (born 1869)