This is a list of events from British radio in 1953. 6 January – The Broadcasting Council for Wales meets for the first time. 2 June – The Coronation...
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The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed...
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This is a list of events in 2024 relating to radio in the United Kingdom. 1 January – Launch of Bournemouth One. The station begins with a welcome message...
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Meteorological Institute (KNMI) was made at 6.15pm (18:15) on 31 January 1953 on Hilversum Radio: Over the northern and western parts of the North Sea, a strong...
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Judi Spiers (category 1953 births)
Judith Marilyn Spiers (born 15 March 1953) is a British radio and television presenter. Initially training to be an actress at the Rose Bruford College...
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British radio. Each year is annotated as a reference point. 1916 in British radio – 1917 in British radio – 1918 in British radio – 1919 in British radio...
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The Agatha Christie short story collection Partners in Crime was adapted as a 13-part radio serial broadcast on the BBC's London, Midland and Scottish...
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The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1951. 1 January – The Archers production series debuts on the BBC Light Programme; it will still be broadcast...
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BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which has operated in the United Kingdom under...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1952. 22 January – First broadcast of The Goon Show under this title on the BBC Home Service. Michael Bentine...
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This is a list of British television related events from 1953. No events. No events. 17 March – Patrick Troughton becomes television's first Robin Hood...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1948. 3 January – Sports Report, the world's longest-running sports radio programme, debuts on the BBC Light...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1950. 6 June – the BBC Light Programme first broadcasts Educating Archie, featuring ventriloquist Peter...
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a list of events from British radio in 1962. 29 January – The Oxford transmitting station at Beckley begins relaying BBC radio and television. No events...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1954. 25 January – First broadcast of Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood, two months after its author's...
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federal election, 1953: Konrad Adenauer is re-elected as German chancellor. Fearing communist influence in British Guiana, the British Government suspends...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1960. 13 July – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting is established to consider the future of broadcasting...
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BBC (redirect from British Broadcasting Co)
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally...
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British radio in 1947. 2 January – Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch, having started out as a recurring sketch in...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1963. 6 January – Alan Freeman takes over as presenter of Pick of the Pops; he remains with the programme...
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The Kraken Wakes (category 1953 British novels)
by British writer John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom in 1953, and first published in the United States in the...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1956. January No events. February No events. March No events. April 22 April – The Shipping Forecast is...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1959. The BBC Third Programme becomes available in Wales on VHF from Wenvoe transmitting station. 3 April...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1957. 2 September – The BBC Light Programme starts broadcasting at breakfast and now goes on-air each day...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1955. 17 April – Opening of Hancock's Half Hour 2nd series on BBC radio. Two days before it is due to be...
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events from British radio in 1945. No events. No events. No events. 15 April – BBC correspondent Richard Dimbleby accompanies the British 11th Armoured...
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Angus Wright (actor) (category Use British English from March 2018)
American-born British actor. Wright was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest child of Virginia and Patrick Wright. His father's career in the British Diplomatic...
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John Reynders, film score composer 1953 in British television 1953 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1953 Kendall, Alan. The Chronicle of Classical...
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1943. 6 January – BBC reporter Richard Dimbleby makes a live recording from a Royal Air Force nighttime...
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