The Birth of the BBC

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

With the BBC celebrating it's centenary, we explore how the corporation came into existence, out of a chaotic broadcasting free-for-all. (This podcast was originally submitted as a programme idea to the Home Service in 1927, but we gave up waiting for a response) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of We Are History.
0:06.8	I'm John O'Farrell.
0:08.0	And I'm Angela.
0:09.5	It's great to be back, Angela.
0:11.4	We broke records last week with our show.
0:14.4	Yeah, get us.
0:15.8	Thank you, everybody.
0:17.1	Welcome to, I think we've got quite a few new listeners.
0:20.0	So, just say hello. Thanks for joining us. We really, yeah, we're happy to have you along.
0:25.5	Welcome to our funny way of looking at the olden days.
0:29.0	Is that your new catchphrase, John? Neathe. Yeah. Well, the old catchphrase was,
0:34.2	we read the book so you don't have to. And we've got to read this book. You've got to read this book. Yeah, that's true.
0:37.8	And we're going to do that again today.
0:39.4	So yeah.
0:40.5	Yeah.
0:41.1	What are we doing?
0:42.0	Actually, John, we've started all wrong.
0:44.6	We need to do this properly.
0:45.6	So bear with me a moment.
0:47.9	Hello.
0:48.6	This is London and Brighton calling.
0:51.3	Welcome to We Are History. That's right, because Angela's chosen the topic this
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