The first BBC broadcast
It's now 100 years since the first ever BBC broadcast. This is the story of how our first bulletin made it to the airwaves.
It's now 100 years since the first ever BBC broadcast. And while we have a good idea what the opening words were and what was in the first news bulletin, it's after that a bit a mystery. There was no Radio Times and no one was keeping an accurate record of what was being broadcast.
Now, a hundred years on, researchers have been piecing together what was going out on air and discovering that while the first ‘official’ broadcast came from London, much of the pioneering work was coming from a separate BBC in the North.
For the latest episode of 5 Minutes On, our media and arts correspondent David Sillito has been looking back at exactly how the first BBC bulletin made it onto the airwaves.
