List of years in British radio (table)
In British television
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This is a list of events from British radio in 1941.

Events

January

  • 14 January – In a BBC radio broadcast from London, Victor de Laveleye asks all Belgians to use the "V sign" as a rallying sign, being the first letter of victoire (victory) in French and of vrijheid (freedom) in Dutch, the beginning of a subversive campaign which spreads across occupied Europe.[1]

February

  • February – BBC begins construction of an emergency broadcasting facility in the disused tunnel of the Clifton Rocks Railway in Bristol.[2]

March

April

  • No events.

May

June

  • 28 June – The first of four broadcasts from Berlin to the neutral United States by English-born humorist P. G. Wodehouse, who has been interned in Nazi Germany, is made. The series, entitled How to be an Internee Without Previous Training and comprising anecdotes about Wodehouse's experiences as a civilian internee, including some gentle mocking of his captors,[5][6][7] is in August broadcast to the United Kingdom by the German propaganda ministry.[8] The broadcasts generate a reaction, including, on 15 July, a strongly worded riposte on the BBC by print journalist William Connor.[6][7] A 1944 official British investigation finds Wodehouse's actions to be no worse than "unwise"[7] but he will never return to the UK.

July

  • No events.

August

September

  • No events.

October

  • No events.

November

  • November – Yorkshireman Wilfred Pickles first reads the national news bulletin, in his regional accent.[1]

December

Undated

  • Bandleader Jack Payne returns to the post of Director of Dance Music at the BBC.[11] This year also the BBC appoints Geraldo's as another of its house bands.[12]

Debuts

Continuing radio programmes

1930s

1940s

Births

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "1940s". About BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. "History". Clifton Rocks Railway. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  3. "New BBC Director of Music". The Times. London. 1 April 1942. p. 7.
  4. Taylor, John A. (2005). Bletchley Park's Secret Sisters: Psychological Warfare in World War II. Dunstable: The Book Castle. ISBN 1-903747-35-X.
  5. Sproat, Iain. (2010) "Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville (1881–1975)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 24 April 2015 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  6. 1 2 Connolly, Joseph (1987) [1979]. P. G. Wodehouse. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 91–2. ISBN 978-0-500-26027-2.
  7. 1 2 3 Phelps, Barry (1992). P. G. Wodehouse: Man and Myth. London: Constable. pp. 211–13, 220. ISBN 978-0-09-471620-9.
  8. McCrum, Robert (2004). Wodehouse: A Life. London: Viking. p. 320. ISBN 978-0-670-89692-9.
  9. Perry, Mike W. (1 July 1998). "Publication History of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity". C. S. Lewis Web. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  10. "The Brains Trust". Radio Days. Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  11. Larkin, Colin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  12. Baade, Christina L. (2012). Victory through Harmony: the BBC and popular music in World War II. Oxford University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-19-537201-4.
  13. "Denning: Going against social norms". The Prague Post. 10 September 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013.
  14. "Presenters – Sue MacGregor". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 28 June 2008. Retrieved 20 July 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  15. Press Association (17 February 2021). "This Sceptred Isle writer Christopher Lee dies aged 79". Evening Express. Aberdeen. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
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