1942 in British radio

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

Events

29 January – The BBC Forces Programme transmits the first edition of Desert Island Discs, presented by Roy Plomley. Vic Oliver is the first castaway.[1] The series will still be running (on BBC Radio 4) more than 75 years later.
27 February – James Stanley Hey, a British Army research officer, helps develop radio astronomy, when he discovers that the sun emits radio waves.
6 May – The Radio Doctor (Charles Hill) makes his first BBC radio broadcast giving avuncular health care advice to British civilians.
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]
27 June – The BBC resumes sponsorship of the Promenade Concerts.[3]
September – The Brains Trust first broadcast under this title on BBC Home Service radio in the United Kingdom.[4]
8 November – Aspidistra medium wave radio transmitter goes into service in the south of England for black propaganda and military deception purposes against Nazi Germany.

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

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"Nightingales sing with RAF bombers overhead". BBC News. 2016-03-24.
"History Of The Proms". BBC. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
"The Brains Trust". Radio Days. Archived from the original on 2010-10-08. Retrieved 2010-10-06.

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