29 July – William Glock is now controller of music for the BBC and The Proms. One of his first commissions is of Symphonies, Op 46 by Elisabeth Lutyens, an indication of his modernistic sympathies.
David Davis is appointed head of children's sound broadcasting at the BBC.
Chorus singer Irene Thomas enters and wins the Brain of Britain contest, heralding a forty-year period as a mainstay of radio panel game quiz programmes.
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