How the BBC Began

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  • Premiered: Oct 2022
  • Episodes: 3
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Saturday at 19
  • Documentary History Mini-series

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Season 1
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Accident and Opportunity
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 2022
The eyewitnesses and participants in the BBC’s early history recount some of the triumphs and disasters as new frontiers of broadcasting were mapped out – often by accident rather than design.
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Building the Audience
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 2022
BBC TV’s first female newsreader, Nan Winton, tells the story of how she was sacked, and staff from the BBC’s monitoring service explain the role they played in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Shooting the Rapids
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 03, 2024
The story of how the BBC struggled to be impartial at critical moments in British history and how it handled social changes in Britain after the Second World War.

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