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75 Years of the BBC

It contains programme extracts which will not only capture the history but also the essence of the period. Including the first ever broadcast, the General Strike, Toytown, the Abdication speech, the outbreak of World War Two, The Dales, the World at One, Just a Minute, Desert Island Discs, the start of Radio 1, The Falklands, The Gulf War, and much more, up to the present day. (Available from HMV)

DISC 1

  1. 2LO calling

  2. John Reith

  3. Lord Gainford: Savoy Hil opens 1 May 1923

  4. Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue?

  5. The Nightingale & the Cello

  6. A.J. Allan

  7. Rev. John Mayo

  8. Vita Sackville-West

  9. Val Gielgud

  10. Danger

  11. H.M. King George V 23 April 1924

  12. General Strike news bulletins May 1926

  13. England v. Wales

  14. Little Betty Bouncer

  15. Toytown

  16. Sir Henry Wood

  17. Sir John Reith: Savoy Hill closes 3 May 1932

  18. Ten Shillings a Year

  19. H.G. Wells 19 november 1932

  20. Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin M.P. 1 July 1932

  21. H.M. King George V 25 December 1932

  22. John Henry and Blossom

  23. Illness of H.M. King George V

  24. Funeral of H.M. King George V

  25. Reoccupation of the Rhineland news bulletin

  26. Abdication speech from H.R.H. Prince Edward

  27. Steel. Edmund Willard

  28. Monday Night at Seven

  29. Crystal Palace fire

  30. The Fleet's Lit Up

  31. Band Waggon

  32. Spanish Civil War

  33. Outbreak of War

  34. Evacuation, Waterloo Station

  35. An evacuee

  36. H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth

  37. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill

  38. Broadcasting House Bomb (reconstruction)

  39. Firewatching on Broadcasting House

  40. Postscript to the News

  41. ITMA, Happidrome, Workers' Playtime

  42. BBC Doctor

  43. News bulletins

  44. The Brains Trust

  45. The Man born to be King

  46. Normandy, Arnhem, Belsen

  47. Surrender in Europe

  48. Atomic Bomb news bulletin

DISC 2

  1. How to Listen

  2. Housewives' Choice

  3. Have a Go

  4. The Boat Race

  5. The Dark Tower

  6. Dick Barton

  7. Korean War

  8. Children's Hour

  9. Listen with Mother

  10. Lying in State of H.M. King George VI

  11. Under Milk Wood

  12. All That Fall

  13. The Goon Show / Hancocks Half Hour

  14. The Archers

  15. Any Questions ?

  16. Woman's Hour

  17. Sports Report

  18. Opening of Radio 1

  19. Round the Horne

  20. I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again

  21. The World this Weekend

  22. Letter from America

  23. The Dales

  24. Radio Sheffield

  25. Radio Taunton

  26. Just a Minute

  27. Terry Wogan & Jimmy Young

  28. Desert Island Discs

  29. The Hitch - Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  30. Artist Descending

  31. John Peel

  32. John Lennon

  33. The Lord of the Rings

  34. Winnie the Pooh

  35. Genesis

  36. The Falklands War

  37. Hillsborough

  38. Brian Redhead

  39. Radio Ulster

  40. Radio 5 Live

  41. Terry Waite / Mikhail Gorbachev

  42. The Berlin Wall comes down

  43. Letter to Daniel

  44. The Moral maze

  45. Last Night of the Proms

  46. Brain Johnson and Jonathon Agnew

  47. Spoonface Steinberg

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