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2 June – Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden gives a radio address claiming success of the Dunkirk evacuation. [5] [6]5 June – Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio Postscript, "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Service, marking the role of the pleasure steamers in the Dunkirk evacuation, just completed.
24 May 1944. ( 1944-05-24) Children Calling Home was an English-language radio programme, with the first episode on Christmas Day, 25 December 1940 as a collaboration between the United Kingdom's BBC 's Home Service, CBC of Canada, and NBC of the United States, and broadcast simultaneously in all three countries. [1]
21 April: Take It or Leave It makes its debut on CBS Radio in the United States, with Bob Hawk as host. 29 April: The Bell Telephone Hour debuts on NBC Red. 23 June: Music While You Work debuts on the BBC Forces Programme. [15] 24 June: The Burl Ives Show debuts on NBC.
The United Kingdom home front during World War II covers the political, social and economic history during 1939–1945. The war was expensive and financed through high taxes, selling off assets, and accepting large amounts of Lend Lease from the US and Canada. The US provided $30 billion in munitions, while Canada also contributed aid.
Website. www .bbc .co .uk /programmes /p00pn1s9. Welsh Rarebit is a British radio variety show broadcast from Cardiff by the BBC between February 1940 and December 1952. The title was taken from the dish of the same name. The show's most lasting legacy remains its closing song, "We'll Keep a Welcome". [1]
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television gradually superseded radio as the medium of choice ...
By 1964, the Home Service was on the air each day from 6.35 am (7.50 am on Sundays) and would conclude each night at the precise time of 11.48 pm. On 30 September 1967, the BBC split the Light Programme into separate pop music and entertainment stations, becoming BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 respectively. The Third Programme became BBC Radio 3 ...
1938. ( 1938) –. 1940. ( 1941) Band Waggon was a comedy radio show broadcast by the BBC from 1938 to 1940. The first series featured Arthur Askey and Richard "Stinker" Murdoch. In the second series, Askey and Murdoch were joined by Syd Walker, and the third series added Diana Clare for two episodes. Band Waggon was co-produced by Gordon Crier ...