1943 in British radio
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January
- 6 January – BBC reporter Richard Dimbleby makes a live recording from a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid over Berlin piloted by Guy Gibson.
- 15 January – Fernand Grenier broadcasts on Radio Londres offering Communist support for Free France.[1]
February
- 12 February – The BBC Ottringham transmitting station in east Yorkshire goes live for broadcast of propaganda to Europe.[2]
March
- March – A BBC radio adaptation of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children is broadcast.[3]
April to May
- Spring – The BBC Monitoring service moves from Wood Norton Hall, Worcestershire, to Caversham Park and Crowsley Park, near Reading, Berkshire.
June
- 24 June – Ralph Vaughan Williams conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the premiere of his Fifth Symphony at a BBC Proms Concert in the Royal Albert Hall.[4]
September
- 4 September – BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.[5]
October
- 17 October – The BBC Woofferton transmitting station in Shropshire begins shortwave broadcasts.[6]
- Late October – Gustav Siegfried Eins, a British black propaganda station, ceases broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe on the short wave, ostensibly because of a Gestapo raid.[7]
November
- 14 November – Soldatensender Calais, a British black propaganda station, begins broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe from a studio at Milton Bryan in Bedfordshire through the powerful medium wave Aspidistra transmitter in Sussex, purporting to be an official German military station.[7]
- 23 November – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation serving forces overseas.[8]
- 25–26 November – The BBC premieres The Rescue: a melodrama for broadcasting, based on the conclusion of Homer's Odyssey, written by Edward Sackville-West with music by Benjamin Britten.[9]
December
- 3 December – London-based American war reporter Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS describing an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.
Debuts
- 2 August – This Week's Composer on the BBC Home Service (1943–Present) (continuing as Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3)[10]
- Caribbean Voices on the BBC World Service (1943–1958)[11]
Continuing radio programmes
1930s
- In Town Tonight (1933–1960)
1940s
- Music While You Work (1940–1967)[12]
- Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
- Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
Births
- 29 January – Tony Blackburn, DJ
- 18 February – Graeme Garden, Scottish-born comedy performer
- 6 April – Roger Cook, Australasian-born investigative reporter
- 14 May – John Cushnie, Northern Ireland landscape designer and gardening broadcaster (died 2009)
- 30 May – Charles Collingwood, Canadian-born actor
- 17 August – John Humphrys, Welsh-born news broadcaster
- 11 September – Brian Perkins, New Zealand-born newsreader
- 28 September – Mike Dickin, DJ and presenter (died 2006)
- 18 October – Dai Jones, Welsh broadcaster (died 2022)
- 23 October – Roger Scott, DJ (died 1989)
- 26 November – Paul Burnett, DJ