“For the first time in history, news was broadcast in England last night by the British Broadcasting Company”. So said the Daily News after the first two bulletins had gone out, the previous evening, from Marconi House, in the Strand. The total staff of the broadcasting company at that stage was just four people. It had been set up only a few weeks earlier by the manufacturers of wireless sets, mindful that the public needed something to listen to.

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