1931 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1931.

Events

• 10 January–4 April – Behind the Screen , a serial written by members of the Detection Club, is broadcast on the BBC National Programme.
• 17 May – Moorside Edge transmitting station in west Yorkshire begins broadcasting the BBC North Regional Programme on 626 kHz and, from 12 July, the BBC National Programme on 995 kHz. ^[1]
• 8 September – W. B. Yeats makes his first BBC talk, an introduction to his version of King Oedipus broadcast from its Belfast studio. ^[2]
• 13 September – Westerglen transmitting station begins broadcasting the BBC Regional Programme for Scotland. ^[3]
• Autumn – The BBC subsumes all its adult education radio broadcasts under the title The Changing World transmitted in the early evening and lasting around 25 minutes each; presenters will include T. S. Eliot, Harold Nicolson, Julian Huxley and William Beveridge who also author accompanying pamphlets. ^[4]

Births

• February – Patricia Greene, actress
• 2 February – Les Dawson, comedian (died 1993)
• 18 February – Ned Sherrin, broadcaster and entertainer (died 2007)
• 7 June – Michael Bakewell, radio and television producer and scriptwriter (died 2023)
• 9 December – Ian McIntyre, Scottish journalist and BBC Radio executive (died 2014)
• Edward Taylor, scriptwriter
• Neville Teller, dramatist

References

1. McCarthy, Clive (28 May 2007). "Development of the BBC A.M. Transmitter Network" (PDF). bbceng.info. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
2. Gould, Warwick (1987). "W. B. Yeats's Unpublished Talk on His Version of King Oedipus Broadcast from the BBC Belfast Studio on 8 September 1931". Yeats Annual No. 5. pp. 195–199. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-06841-8_14. ISBN   978-1-349-06843-2.
3. Radio Times (11 September 1931), Other Stations' Programmes, vol. 32, p. 565
4. Jones, Allan (2013). "The Changing World: The BBC’s educational response to the economic crisis of 1931". In History of the Media in Transition Periods, 4-6 Sep 2013, Catholic University of Portugal/Lisbon, ECREA – European Communication Research and Education Association. via Open University.