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This is a list of events from British radio in 1923.

Events

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January

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February

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March

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  • 6 March – First BBC broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).[2] It broadcasts excerpts from an opera.[3]
  • 19 March – First BBC outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.[2]
  • 26 March – First broadcast of a dance band, by Marius B Winter and his Dance Orchestra.[4]

April

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  • April – First BBC broadcast of an SOS message, for a woman to attend the bedside of her dying brother.[5]

May

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  • 2 May – Women's Hour, the first BBC programme for women (and predecessor of the later Woman's Hour), is broadcast.
  • 24 May 1923 – The first live broadcast of a dance band, The Carlton Hotel Dance Band, leader Ben Davis.[4]
  • 30 May – BBC Cardiff (station 5WA) broadcasts the first full performance of a new orchestral opera.[3]
  • 31 May – Yorkshire-born Norman Clapham makes his BBC debut as 'John Henry', one of the first comedians to adapt to the medium of radio.[6][7]

June

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September

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October

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  • 3 October – The first live broadcast of dance music from the Savoy Hotel, by the Savoy Havana Band.[4]
  • 10 October – Official opening of the BBC's 2BD Aberdeen radio station, the first programme of which, at 9 pm, is an address by the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair and music from the Pipers and Military Band of 2nd Gordon Highlanders.[a][13][14]
  • 17 October – Official opening of the BBC's 6BM Bournemouth radio station, the first programme of which, at 8 pm, is the Bournemouth Municipal Military Band conducted by Captain W. Featherston.[b][13][15]

November

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  • 16 November – First BBC broadcast from Sheffield (station 2FL).

December

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Births

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  • 15 January – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist (died 2006)
  • 26 January – Patricia Hughes, continuity announcer (died 2013)
  • 2 March – Jean Metcalfe, radio broadcaster (died 2000)
  • 16 July – Larry Stephens, comedy scriptwriter (died 1959)
  • 10 October – Nicholas Parsons, entertainer (died 2020)
  • 13 October – Cyril Shaps, character actor (died 2003)
  • 3 December – Trevor Bailey, cricketer and commentator (died 2011)
  • 22 December – John Ebdon, radio broadcaster, Graecophile, author and director of the London Planetarium (died 2005)

Notes

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  1. ^ It is probable that 2BD Aberdeen broadcast on an experimental and testing basis, prior to this date, without being listed in The Radio Times.
  2. ^ It is probable that 6BM Bournemouth broadcast on an experimental and testing basis, prior to this date, without being listed in The Radio Times.

References

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  1. ^ Prior, Neil (13 February 2013). "Broadcasting in Wales: 90 years since BBC went on air". BBC. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b Walker, David Pat (2011). The BBC in Scotland: the first 50 years. Edinburgh: Luath. ISBN 1-908373-00-8.
  3. ^ a b Sillito, David (14 November 2022). "Mystery of BBC radio's first broadcasts revealed 100 years on". BBC News. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  4. ^ a b c 'Stomping at the Savoy', in Storyville No. 30, August/September 1970, p. 222
  5. ^ The Daily Mirror Old Codgers Little Black Book Number Two. London: Mirror Group. 1976. pp. 70–1. ISBN 0-85939-076-4.
  6. ^ Purcell, Jennifer J. (July 2018). "'Enthusiasm, Experiment and Gallantry in Action': Developing Light Entertainment on the Fledgling BBC, 1922–1932". Cultural and Social History. 15 (3): 415–32. doi:10.1080/14780038.2018.1492786. S2CID 149732018.
  7. ^ Dibbs, Martin (2018). Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922-67: Comedy and Popular Music on Air. Springer. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-319-95609-1.
  8. ^ Patrick Kidd. 'The jockey who died during a race – but still won', in The Times, 9 June 2023
  9. ^ "Radio Times". Radio Times. Vol. 1, no. 1. 28 November 1923. p. 1.
  10. ^ Currie, Tony (2001). The Radio Times Story. Kelly Publishing. ISBN 978-1903053096.
  11. ^ "Issue 1 National". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  12. ^ "A Miracle of Broadcasting". Radio Times. Vol. 1, no. 1. 28 November 1923. p. 2.
  13. ^ a b "Schedule Coverage". BBC Genome Project labs. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  14. ^ "Listings | 2BD Aberdeen | 10 October 1923". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  15. ^ "Listings | 6BM Bournemouth | 17 October 1923". BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  16. ^ "A Christmas Carol". BBC. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  17. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.