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1922-1932

Chimes Of Big Ben / The BBC Calling The World From London

Writtle Calling

Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue

Last Night On The Back Porch

Opening Of Savoy Hill 1923

Stride La Vampa (Il Trovatore)

Auntie Aggy Of The BBC

I Love A Lassie

Nightingales In Surrey Wood / Songs My Mother Taught Me

Do That Heebie Jeebie Dance

My Photograph

Opening Of Tutankhamun's Tomb

Tutankhamun's Trumpet

Introducing Gramaphone Record Programme

Love's Old Sweet Song

If My Songs Were Winged

The First Radio Padre

News Item About The General Strike 1926

Flight From England To Australia And Back By De Havilland Seaplane 50, 30.6.26-1.10.26

Heavyweight Championship - Tommy Farr Vs. Joe Louis

Say It With Music

Extract From Speech On Conversion Of War Loan 1.7.32

Short Extract From Speech By The Prime Minister On The Political Situation 25.8.31

Short Extract From Talk On Communications 19.11.32

Happy Days Are Here Again

Short Extract From "Joe Murgatoyd's Letter"

Reminiscences Of Hogsnorton

First Christmas Day Message From Sandringham 25.12.32

1933-1939

In Town Tonight - Introductory Sequence And Knightsbridge March

Sally

Where The Blue Of The Night

Here's To The Next Time

Speech From Reichstag 30.1.34

Speech At 2nd Quinquennial Fascist Assembly, Rome, 18.3.34

Speech On Political Implications Of Death Of President Von Hindenburg 2.8.34

Joseph Joseph

Whispering

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Outbreak Of Italo-Abyssinian War, News Bulletin 3.10.35

Music Hall (Opening Signature Tune)

Illness Of H.M. King George V - Special Announcement 20.1.36

Death Of H.M. King George V - Announcement 12.15am 21.1.36

Passing Bell

Funeral Of H.M. King George V. - Commentary From Westminster Hall 28.1.36

Message To The Empire 1.3.36

In The Mood

German Re-Occupation Of The Rhineland - News Bulletin 7.3.36

Opening Of Olympic Games In Berlin; Speech Followed By Singing Of Olympic Hymn

Opening Of BBC Television Service At Alexandra Palace - Announcement 2.11.36

Abdication Of H.M. King Edward VIII - Farewell Speech 11.12.36

Coronation Of H.M. King George VI And H.M. Queen Elizabeth. Recognition - Westminster Abbey 12.5.37

Royal Naval Review

Monday Night At Seven - Introduction And Opening Signature Tune

Band Waggon - Excerpt Of Chestnut Corner

Entry Of Germany Into Austria - Recordings Made At Linz 12.3.38

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

The Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain Returns From Munich 30.9.38

Invasion Of Poland - News Bulletin 1.9.39

Evacuation Of Children From Waterloo Station

Outbreak Of War With Germany. Announcement By The Prime Minister 3.9.39

1940-1945

The Fall Of France. Extract From Speech By The Prime Minister 17.6.40

Air Raid Sirens Followed By "Battle Of Britain" New Bulletin Of 15.9.40

Air Raid On London - Actuality Recording From Roof And Adjoining Street Of Broadcasting House

ITMA - Introduction From Special Performance For The Home Fleet At Scapa Flow

Garrison Theatre - Introduction Followed By "Nursey Nursey"

Sincerely Yours - "Wishing Will Make It So"

British Submarines In Mediterranean - News Bulletin 5.9.41

Sincerely Yours - "We'll Meet Again"

News Bulletin 7.9.41

Colonel Britton On The V For Victory Call Sign 31.7.41

El Alamein - War Report

Lilli Marlene

Advance Of The 8th Army In Western Desert - News Bulletin 4.11.42

Shipmates Ashore - Opening Signature Tune

Hi Gang! - Signature Tune And Introduction

Far Eastern Situation - News Bulletin 8.12.41

Happidrome - "We Three"

Merry-Go-Round (RAF Edition) - "Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh"

The Radio Doctor - On Ingestion

Workers Playtime

Capitulation Of Italy - News Bulletin 8.9.43

Ack-Ack Beer-Beer - Opening Signature Tune

The Brains Trust

The Old Town Hall - Closing Signature Tune

Italy Declares War On Germany - News Bulletin 12.10.43

Moonlight Serenade

D-Day Landings On Normandy Coast - News Item 06.06.44

Mitchell Bomber Over Normandy Coast

Broadcast At 0730 Hours On D-Day

Lilliburlero

D-Day - War Report

Invasion - War Report 08.08.44

Battle For Channel Ports

Capture Of Brussels - News Item Followed By Band And Crowds Singing "Quand Madelon" After The Liberation 04.09.44

Allied Airbourne Landings In Holland 17.09.44 - Announcement And War Report From Arnhem

Link-Up With Russian Army - War Report 25.04.45

White Cliffs Of Dover

Death Of Hitler - Special Announcement 01.05.45

Surrender Of German Armed Forces In Italy 02.05.45

Capture Of Berlin - News Item 02.05.45

VE Day - Winston Churchill Announces Victory In Europe Followed By Crowds Singing "Tipperary" 08.05.45

Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima 06.08.45

Japanese Surrender Signed, Tokyo Bay - News Item 02.09.45

1946-1972

FA Cup Final, Charlton Vs. Burnley, 1947 "The Ball Bursts"

Oxford Vs. Cambridge Boat Race, 1949

Wedding Of H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth And The Prince Phillip - Commentary Followed By The National Anthem 20.11.47

Mrs Dale's Diary

Have A Go - Introductory Sequence And "Have A Go Joe"

Ignorance Is Bliss - Introductory Sequence

Round The Horne - Opening Signature Tune And Dialogue

Take It From Here - The Glums - Signature Tune And Short Extract

The Goon Show - Short Excerpt From "Tales Of Old Dartmoor" Followed By "I Travel The Road"

The Archers - Opening Signature Tune "Barwick Green" And Short Excerpt "The Death Of Grace Archer"

Twenty Questions - Introductory Sequence

Down Your Way - Closing Sequence And "The Horse Guards, Whitehall"

First Trans-Atlantic Jet Flight By RAF Vampires - 16.7.48

Meteor Jet At 618mph - 12.10.48

Berlin, End Of Soviet Blockade - 4.5.49

Funeral Of H.M. King George 15.2.52

The Coronation Of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II - Prayer And Crowning By The Archbishop Of Canterbury - 2.6.53

Till Death Do Us Part - "TV Filth" - Short Extract

That Was The Week That Was. Opening Signature Tune And Short Extract From "What's Left Of The Empire

The Steptoes. Short Extract From Homes Fit For Heros

Men In Space - Gagarin 12.04.61

Assassination Of President Kennedy 22.11.63

England's World Cup Victory (Soccer) 1966

Short Extract From 1,000th Letter From America On Vietnam 24.03.68

Memorial Service In Westminster Abbey For Lord Reith 22.07.71 - Lament "Flowers Of The Forest"

Videos

BBC 1922 1972 (side 2 to follow)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnNT4CabT0

50 Years of the BBC1922 1972 (Part 1 of 2) Narrated by Rene Cutforth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx_AgBsEfzs

50 Years of the BBC 1922 -1972 (Part 2 of 2) Narrated by Rene Cutforth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zow0SP85taA

See video on youtube

By Kyle Larson