The BBC is celebrating the centenary of its first official broadcast - a news bulletin that included a court report from the Old Bailey, details of London fog disruption, and billiards scores.
He says the Manchester station, which operated out of Trafford Park, seems to have been the best organised.
"They seem to have had a far more professional approach. There's a lot more documentation and it seems they knew their onions. I'd love to know more."The record of Manchester's pioneering children's programme reveals that on 15 November 1922, Miss A Bennie, known as The Lady of the Magic Carpet, read The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde.
Algy's Priceless Piffle, featuring Victor Smythe, was a pioneer of radio satire and again, came from Manchester. Other services covering the UK were also set up in the months after the first broadcast in November 1922. In Glasgow, 5SC opened on 6 March 1923 and broadcast excerpts of an opera.The BBC has been celebrating its centenary over the past month with a series of events and special programmes, which launched on 18 October - as that was the 100th anniversary of the date that the BBC was officially created and named.
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