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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 , devised and presented by Roy Plomley. Revue artist (and son-in-law to the Prime Minister) 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 within the Kitchen Front programme; his broadcasts continue to 1950.
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 in London.^[3]
29 June – Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony No. 7, the score of which has been smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm, receives its first performance in Western Europe at The Proms, as an act of defiance following Germany's invasion of Russia.

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.

Undated

Special Operations Executive devise the B Mk II radio receiver/transmitter set for dropping to resistance groups in occupied Europe.^[5]

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

20 February – Charlie Gillett, music presenter (died 2010)
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

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References

↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "Nightingales sing with RAF bombers overhead". BBC News. 24 March 2016.
↑ "History Of The Proms". BBC. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
↑ "The Brains Trust". Radio Days. Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
↑ Foot, M. R. D. (1999). The Special Operations Executive 1940–1946. London: Pimlico. pp. 108–11. ISBN 0-7126-6585-4.

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[Pocket_On_This_Day-1] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

[2] "Nightingales sing with RAF bombers overhead". BBC News. 24 March 2016.

[3] "History Of The Proms". BBC. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

[4] "The Brains Trust". Radio Days. Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.

[5] Foot, M. R. D. (1999). The Special Operations Executive 1940–1946. London: Pimlico. pp. 108–11. ISBN 0-7126-6585-4.

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