1942 in British radio
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1942.
Events
January
- 29 January – The BBC Forces Programme transmits the first edition of Desert Island Discs, presented by Roy Plomley. Vic Oliver is the first castaway.[1] The series will still be running (on BBC Radio 4) more than 75 years later.
February
- 27 February – James Stanley Hey, a British Army research officer, helps develop radio astronomy, when he discovers that the sun emits radio waves.
March
- No events.
April
- No events.
May
- 6 May – The Radio Doctor (Charles Hill) makes his first BBC radio broadcast giving avuncular health care advice to British civilians.
- 19 May – A subsequently famous BBC outside broadcast recording captures the song of the common nightingale with the sound of Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers flying overhead.[2]
June
- 27 June – The BBC resumes sponsorship of the Promenade Concerts.[3]
July
- No events.
August
- No events.
September
- September – The Brains Trust first broadcast under this title on BBC Home Service radio in the United Kingdom.[4]
October
- No events.
November
- 8 November – Aspidistra medium wave radio transmitter goes into service in the south of England for black propaganda and military deception purposes against Nazi Germany.
December
- No events.
Debuts
- 29 January – Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
Continuing radio programmes
1930s
- In Town Tonight (1933–1960)
1940s
- Music While You Work (1940–1967)
- Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
Births
- 18 July – Dave Cash, DJ (died 2016)
- 12 August – David Munrow, early music performer and presenter (Pied Piper on BBC Radio 3) (suicide 1976)
- 24 October – Frank Delaney, Irish-born novelist and radio presenter (died 2017)
- 24 December – Anthony Clare, Irish-born psychiatrist and radio presenter (died 2007)
- 26 December – Emperor Rosko (Mike Pasternak), American-born DJ
See also
- 1942 in British music
- 1942 in British television
- 1942 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1942
References
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ "Nightingales sing with RAF bombers overhead". BBC News. 2016-03-24.
- ^ "History Of The Proms". BBC. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- ^ "The Brains Trust". Radio Days. Archived from the original on 2010-10-08. Retrieved 2010-10-06.