Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Oldie

    RADIO VALERIE GROVE

    Sep 22, 2021 2 minutes

    In just over a year’s time, the BBC will celebrate its centenary.

    On 14th November 1922 the first broadcast was aired, carrying into our homes ‘all that is best in human knowledge, endeavour and achievement’. The dwindling cohort of radio hacks will doubtless be recalling the Best of Reithian Moments. But a prime candidate for Worst Radio moment was revealed lately on . ‘Why?’? What were you thinking of?’

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Oldie

    The Oldie3 min read
    Strange Case Of A Mystery Benefactor
    In the way of this dismal age for the young, my son, Louis Norman, has been restored to his childhood home for some 16 months. This is less by choice than through economic necessity. No one within 17 postcodes of sanity, let alone a close relative, w
    The Oldie2 min read
    Rant
    Earlier this year, I was at a festival of crime-writing where at least ten of the participants were wearing rock-tour T-shirts from the 1970s: Led Zeppelin; King Crimson; Deep Purple. These weren't replicas but vintage unwashed. I couldn't quite beli
    The Oldie2 min read
    Olden Life
    The first book to be bound in book cloth was issued in 1823 by the bookbinder Archibald Leighton. But it was not until another Archibald, the Manchester cloth and cotton merchant Archibald Winterbottom, started his own company in 1853 that the book-c

    Related