This is a list of events from British radio in 1942.

List of years in British radio (table)
In British television
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Events

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January

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February

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March

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  • No events.

April

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  • No events.
  • 6 May – The Radio Doctor (Charles Hill) makes his first BBC radio broadcast giving avuncular health care advice to British civilians within the Kitchen Front programme; his broadcasts continue to 1950.
  • 19 May – A subsequently famous BBC outside broadcast recording captures the song of the common nightingale with the sound of Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers flying overhead.[2]

June

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  • 27 June – The BBC resumes sponsorship of the Promenade Concerts in London.[3]
  • 29 June – Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony No. 7, the score of which has been smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm, receives its first performance in Western Europe at The Proms, as an act of defiance following Germany's invasion of Russia.

July

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  • No events.

August

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  • No events.

September

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October

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  • No events.

November

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December

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  • No events.

Undated

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Debuts

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Continuing radio programmes

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1930s

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1940s

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Births

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  • 20 February – Charlie Gillett, music presenter (died 2010)
  • 18 July – Dave Cash, DJ (died 2016)
  • 12 August – David Munrow, early music performer and presenter (Pied Piper on BBC Radio 3) (suicide 1976)
  • 24 October – Frank Delaney, Irish-born novelist and radio presenter (died 2017)
  • 24 December – Anthony Clare, Irish-born psychiatrist and radio presenter (died 2007)
  • 26 December – Emperor Rosko (Mike Pasternak), American-born DJ

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  2. ^ "Nightingales sing with RAF bombers overhead". BBC News. 24 March 2016.
  3. ^ "History Of The Proms". BBC. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  4. ^ "The Brains Trust". Radio Days. Archived from the original on 8 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  5. ^ Foot, M. R. D. (1999). The Special Operations Executive 1940–1946. London: Pimlico. pp. 108–11. ISBN 0-7126-6585-4.
  6. ^ "Music While You Work". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 1 November 2024.