16 August – The BBC unveils a Compton organ in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London.[3]
28 August – For the first time, the BBC broadcasts the description of a wanted criminal suspect – Stanley Hobday who has committed murder in the course of a burglary in West Bromwich. He is recognised from the description near Carlisle and in due course tried and executed.[4]
28 October – Broadcast of the earliest surviving BBC location recording, Night on London’s River: Westminster to the Docks.[5]
BBC executive Colonel Alan Dawnay begins to meet with the head of MI5, Sir Vernon Kell, to trade information informally on potentially subversive staff.[6]
The BBC acquires a roller skating rink in west London and begins its reconstruction as the Maida Vale Studios.
↑ Beckwith, Roger (11 September 2013). "Lower Ground Floor". Broadcasting House in the 1930s. Old BBC Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
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