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The bbc is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its first official bbc broadcast — a news bulletin from london. hello. 2lo calling, 2lo calling. november the 14th, 1922, and the beginning of the bbc. 2lo was the call sign of the bbc station in london. and 100 years on, the six o'clock radio news has been marking how it all began. this bulletin marks the moment 100 years ago that the bbc began broadcasting. back in 1922, the news reader at 6pm was arthur burrows. arthur burrows at this point is the first voice of the bbc. he's almost had the idea of broadcasting a few years earlier as well, a...

In november 1922? november 1922, the bbc has a staff of zero. there are no employees... there are no official staff? there are no official staff. arthur burrows does that first broadcast essentially in his spare time. was itjust london in november 1922? no, london was day one. and then day two was birmingham and manchester, and that's where you get musical concerts, children's programmes come in there, the general election results as well, all mixed in together. and the bbc has only now been discovering how many of its pioneering programmes came from manchester and birmingham. overto you, birm...

Next days and weeks. on this day, 100 years ago, the bbc broadcast its first ever radio programme in 1922. back then it was known as the british broadcasting company, and ran its first—ever radio broadcast from 2l0, a famous london studio. we are whizzing through 100 years. stop! the first programme was a news bulletin read by arthur burrows, who read it twice — once fast and then slowly — so that listeners could take notes if they wished. we should run the pictures more slowly. fast and slowly. we we should run the pictures more slowly. fast and slowly.- slowly. fast and slowly. we will...

Want to get them going, partly because the world cup is coming and retailers don't know how that is going to play out. but these people are looking for really good prices and if they don't find them, they won't be buying products. and unlike last year, there's plenty of stock retailers really need to shift. emma simpson, bbc news, manchester. the bbc is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its first official bbc broadcast — a news bulletin from london. it included a court report from the old bailey, details of disruption caused by fog in the capital, and the billiards scores. 0ur corresponde...

And 100 years on, the six o'clock radio news has been marking how it all began. this bulletin marks the moment 100 years ago that the bbc began broadcasting. back in 1922, the news reader at 6pm was arthur burrows. arthur burrows at this point is the first voice of the bbc. he's almost had the idea of broadcasting a few years earlier as well, and within a month he'll be director of programmes at the bbc and one of our first children's presenters. yes, arthur was also uncle arthur, children's entertainer. it wasn't a large organisation on day one. how many staff at the beginning, in november 19...