It's The British Broadcasting Century's century!

Thanks if you've joined us for the story so far, from Morse and Marconi to Reith and the Pips (before Gladys Knight took over lead vocals).

This special 100th episode is for both the newcomer and the seasoned veteran - being the previous 99 episodes in summary form, BUT with lots of new bits.

So this is no best-of... (alright it's a bit of a best-of) ...this is packed with new things we didn't know, old things we hadn't found yet, new perspectives on the areas we've covered previously, things we left out completely, and much more, or less, depending on how you look at it.

New things include:

The first song Marconi played via wireless (thanks John Hannon)
New (corrected!) info on Marconi's first sports report by wireless - not 1899 in America, but 1898 in Ireland...
Long clips of Britain's first DJ Gertrude Donisthorpe, Marconi engineer William Ditcham, first broadcast singer Winifred Sayer, Marconi man R.D. Bangay, and more, that we haven't played you before.
News on the Melba recording (er, not good news)
A 6min-long never-before-heard reminiscence by Arthur Burrows, reflecting on the first BBC broadcast, with new info - including the 2LO orchestra being accused of electoral bias because of their song choice. The first accusation of BBC on-air bias... in musical form!
The opening words of the first BBC children's broadcast
New info on Harry Tate's 'Broadcasting' sketch (thanks Alan Stafford)
The first singer of Cardiff 5WA
The Sykes Committee look into the BBC (just to keep the story moving forward, a bit)

And we've been asking you for your favourite moments so far. So we re-bring you:

Peter Eckersley on 2MT Writtle
Tales from 2ZY Manchester and 5IT Birmingham
More Peter Eckersley on 2MT Writtle
Even more Peter Eckersley on...

...You get the idea.

Thanks for joining us for our first 100 episodes - here's to our next 100.

Do share this with people to help make that happen!

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SHOWNOTES:

Next time: Episode 101: The Sykes Inquiry, and the Early Recordings Association.

More info on this broadcasting history project at paulkerensa.com/oldradio

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