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This is a list of events from British radio in 1943.
Events
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.
February
- 12 February – The BBC Ottringham transmitting station in east Yorkshire goes live for broadcast of propaganda to Europe.[1]
March
- March – A BBC radio adaptation of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children is broadcast.[2]
April to August
- Spring – The BBC Monitoring service moves from Wood Norton Hall, Worcestershire, to Caversham Park and Crowsley Park, near Reading, Berkshire.
September
- 4 September – BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.[3]
October
- 17 October – The BBC Woofferton transmitting station in Shropshire begins shortwave broadcasts.[4]
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.[5]
- 23 November – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation serving forces overseas.
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
- Caribbean Voices on the BBC World Service (1943–1958)[6]
Continuing radio programmes
1930s
- In Town Tonight (1933–1960)
1940s
- Music While You Work (1940–1967)
- 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
- 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
Deaths
- 20 November – Rev. George Bramwell Evens ('Romany'), broadcaster and writer on countryside matters (born 1884)
See also
- 1943 in British music
- 1943 in British television
- 1943 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1943
References
- ^ Baxter, Dale (2008-09-10). "Hidden history in Holderness". BBC Humberside. BBC. Retrieved 2009-12-05.
- ^ Harrisson, Tom (1943-03-21). "Radio". The Observer. London. p. 2.
- ^ "Raid on Berlin: Actuality recording of a Royal Air Force (RAF) bombing raid over Berlin, Germany". Australian War Memorial. 1943-09-04. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
- ^ Cant, Jeff (2006). "Fifty years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton 1943–1993: A social and technical history of a Short Wave Station" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-03-10.
- ^ Taylor, John A. (2005). Bletchley Park's Secret Sisters: Psychological Warfare in World War II. Dunstable: The Book Castle. ISBN 1-903747-35-X.
- ^ Swanzy, H. L. V. (1949). "Caribbean Voices: Prolegomena to a West Indian Culture". Caribbean Quarterly. 1 (2): 21–28.