22 January – First broadcast of The Goon Show under this title on the BBC Home Service. Michael Bentine leaves the cast at the end of this series (15 July). After the start of the third series (11 November), Spike Milligan, the principal writer, suffers a nervous breakdown and is absent from performing and writing credits from the episodes commencing 9 December into 1953.
February
6 February – Following the death of King George VI, discovered at 7.30am, the BBC broadcasts the news (read by John Snagge) at 11.15am; the news is repeated seven times, every 15 minutes, and then the BBC goes silent for five hours.[1]
15 February – State funeral of George VI: The funeral procession through London and ceremony inside St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, are broadcast on BBC radio. The commentary by Richard Dimbleby subsequently receives comment for its poignancy.[1][2]
March to July
No events.
August
26 August – Hit radio series Welsh Rarebit, broadcast from the BBC Cardiff studios, transfers to television.
September
26 September – Comedy series In All Directions is first broadcast on the BBC Home Service. Unusually for this period, the script originates from improvisation between the two stars, Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones, edited by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. In the series, which continues to 1955, Jones originates his spiv character Dudley Grosvenor.[3]
October
15 October – First broadcast of a series of Sherlock Holmes, with Carleton Hobbs in the title role, which will continue intermittently until 1969.
November
No events.
December
No events.
Programme endings
July – Calling All Forces, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1952)
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