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Overview of the events of 1943 in British radio

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This is a list of events from British radio in 1943.

## Events

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### January

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* 6 January – BBC reporter Richard Dimbleby makes a live recording from a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid over Berlin piloted by Guy Gibson.

### February

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* 12 February – The BBC Ottringham transmitting station in east Yorkshire goes live for broadcast of propaganda to Europe.[1]

### March

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* March – A BBC radio adaptation of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children is broadcast.[2]

### April to May

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* Spring – The BBC Monitoring service moves from Wood Norton Hall, Worcestershire, to Caversham Park and Crowsley Park, near Reading, Berkshire.

### June

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* 24 June – Ralph Vaughan Williams conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the premiere of his Fifth Symphony at a BBC Proms Concert in the Royal Albert Hall.[3]

### September

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* 4 September – BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.[4]

### October

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* 17 October – The BBC Woofferton transmitting station in Shropshire begins shortwave broadcasts.[5]
* Late October – Gustav Siegfried Eins, a British black propaganda station, ceases broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe on the short wave, ostensibly because of a Gestapo raid.[6]

### November

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* 14 November – Soldatensender Calais, a British black propaganda station, begins broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe from a studio at Milton Bryan in Bedfordshire through the powerful medium wave Aspidistra transmitter in Sussex, purporting to be an official German military station.[6]
* 23 November – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation serving forces overseas.[7]

### December

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* 3 December – London-based American war reporter Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS describing an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.

## Debuts

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* 2 August – This Week's Composer on the BBC Home Service (1943–Present) (continuing as Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3)[8]
* Caribbean Voices on the BBC World Service (1943–1958)[9]

## Continuing radio programmes

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### 1930s

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* In Town Tonight (1933–1960)

### 1940s

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* Music While You Work (1940–1967)[10]
* Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
* Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)

## Births

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* 29 January – Tony Blackburn, DJ
* 18 February – Graeme Garden, Scottish-born comedy performer
* 6 April – Roger Cook, Australasian-born investigative reporter
* 30 May – Charles Collingwood, Canadian-born actor
* 17 August – John Humphrys, Welsh-born news broadcaster
* 11 September – Brian Perkins, New Zealand-born newsreader
* 28 September – Mike Dickin, DJ and presenter (died 2006)
* 18 October – Dai Jones, Welsh broadcaster (died 2022)
* 23 October – Roger Scott, DJ (died 1989)
* 26 November – Paul Burnett, DJ

## Deaths

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* 20 November – Rev. George Bramwell Evens ('Romany'), broadcaster and writer on countryside matters (born 1884)

## See also

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* 1943 in British music
* 1943 in British television
* 1943 in the United Kingdom
* List of British films of 1943

## References

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1. ^ Baxter, Dale (10 September 2008). "Hidden history in Holderness". BBC Humberside. BBC. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
2. ^ Harrisson, Tom (21 March 1943). "Radio". The Observer. London. p. 2.
3. ^ Richards, Denby (March 2009). "Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major". Musical Opinion: 50.
4. ^ "Raid on Berlin: Actuality recording of a Royal Air Force (RAF) bombing raid over Berlin, Germany". Australian War Memorial. 4 September 1943. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
5. ^ Cant, Jeff (2006). "Fifty years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton 1943–1993: A social and technical history of a Short Wave Station" (PDF). Retrieved 10 March 2021.
6. ^ a b Taylor, John A. (2005). Bletchley Park's Secret Sisters: Psychological Warfare in World War II. Dunstable: The Book Castle. ISBN 1-903747-35-X.
7. ^ "Historical Events in 1943". www.historyorb.com.
8. ^ Macleod, Donald (2 August 2013). "Happy 70th birthday Composer of the Week". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
9. ^ Swanzy, H. L. V. (1949). "Caribbean Voices: Prolegomena to a West Indian Culture". Caribbean Quarterly. 1 (2): 21–28.21-28&rft.date=1949&rft.aulast=Swanzy&rft.aufirst=H.+L.+V.&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40652453&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1943+in+British+radio" class="Z3988">
10. ^ "Music While You Work". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 1 November 2024.