For episode 44, we go to Holland and go back a few years, to hear of radio pioneer Hanso Idzerda and his Dutch concerts. It's not British broadcasting, but it's British listening - our ancestors could hear his regular broadcasts from 1919 to 1924 - at least if they had a radio set of quality.
Gordon Bathgate is a radio history fan and author of Radio Broadcasting: A History of the Airwaves - he guides us through Idzerda's doomed story, in an episode that's less of me, more of him... plus the return of your FMs and AMs - Firsthand Memories of broadcasting in action and an Airwave Memory from Paula Goddard.
Next time: the Birmingham and Manchester stations, inc. an interview with Jude Montague, granddaughter of one of their first broadcasters Sydney Wright.
Thanks for listening!
Justin Webb on Leonard Crocombe... and January 1923
2ZY Manchester and 5IT Birmingham Calling... with Jude Montague
The First Outside Broadcast: A Night at the Opera!
Drops Mic, Drops Callsign
The BBC’s First Female Employee: Isobel Shields
New Year 1923, Magnet House: ”Pandemonium Reigned!”
SPECIAL: The Twelve Airplays of Christmas (with Ben Baker)
SPECIAL: What Marconi Thought of Broadcasting... + 1920s ads
SPECIAL: The Prehistory of the BBC (extended cut)
Out with the Old: The First BBC New Year’s Eve
Reith Begins!
Newcastle‘s Christmas Launch: Let It 5NO, Let It 5NO, Let It 5NO!
The First Couple of Marconi House: December 1922
The Licence Fee Problem... of 1922
The Hunt for BBC Premises, Burrows vs Marconi + Prof Gabriele Balbi
The First BBC Staff: Reith, Burrows, Lewis, Anderson, White (+ David Hamilton)
The First Listings: from Norman Long to Neville Chamberlain
The First BBC Entertainers... and Lee Mack
Season 2 Trailer (aka Season 1 Recap)
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