B.B.C. marks its 60th year
NZPA-Reuter London Historic sounds from 60 years of broadcasting in Britain rang out in St Paul’s Cathedral on Tuesday in a tribute to the British Broadcasting Corporation. The Queen, Prince Philip, and radio and television personalities listened to famous BBC. recordings at a thanksgiving service marking the sixtieth anniversary of the 8.8. C. and fiftieth anniversary of its external services. The Queen heard the voice of her grandfather, King George V, delivering his first Christmas Day message to the British Empire 50 years ago and choral music from her own Coronation in 1953. The microphone used by George V was displayed, decorated with flowers, at the entrance to the Cathedral. The recordings opened with the signal of the first broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company, as it was then known, on November 14, 1922. They included the announcement of World War II by Neville Chamberlain on September 3, 1939; the death of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963; and the voice of a television reporter covering the Falkland Islands conflict.
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Press, 15 July 1982, Page 10
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