1933 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1933.

Events

10 March – The BBC holds a memorial concert for its late Director of Music, Percy Pitt, in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London.^[1]
28 May – Washford transmitting station begins broadcasting the BBC Regional Programme for the West of England.^[2]
16 August – The BBC unveils a Compton organ in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London.^[3]
28 August – For the first time, the BBC broadcasts the description of a wanted criminal suspect – Stanley Hobday who has committed murder in the course of a burglary in West Bromwich. He is recognised from the description near Carlisle and in due course tried and executed.^[4]
28 October – Broadcast of the earliest surviving BBC location recording, Night on London’s River: Westminster to the Docks.^[5]
BBC executive Colonel Alan Dawnay begins to meet with the head of MI5, Sir Vernon Kell, to trade information informally on potentially subversive staff.^[6]
The BBC acquires a roller skating rink in west London and begins its reconstruction as the Maida Vale Studios.

^ Ruth, Jennifer (1999). The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922–1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes. Cambridge University Press. p. 467. ISBN 978-0-521-66117-1. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
^ The BBC Year-book 1933. London: BBC. 1933. OCLC 867862862.
^ Beckwith, Roger (11 September 2013). "Lower Ground Floor". Broadcasting House in the 1930s. Old BBC Radio Broadcasting Equipment and Memories. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
^ "Stanley Eric Hobday". British Executions. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
^ "Radio actuality recordings – Night on London's River". Sound and History. 1933. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
^ "The vetting files: How the BBC kept out 'subversives'". bbc.co.uk. 22 April 2018. Archived from the original on 22 April 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^ Radio Times (10 November 1933), In Town Tonight, vol. 41, BBC National Programme, p. 50