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the biggest audiences. and, of course, way before television came radio, and what do you need to broadcast a voice to the nation? one of these. and one of the most iconic mics ever is the bbc—marconi type a. and trust me when i say it's iconic, i mean it is an icon — literally. one of our panellists, joe leates, really likes this microphone — i mean, really likes this microphone — and he spent the last few months uncovering its story, and here it is. not many are around these days — especially ones that work — as it became tradition at the corporation to empty the insides...

Operationally, too. eyes had been on the ground—breaking ribbon microphone invented by rca, the radio corporation of america, but it was a little too expensive so, in true bbc form, they made their own for less than 10% of what rca were charging. nice going. the type a stayed in use by the bbc from 193a until 1959. a whole 25 years. that is a long time when technology was developing so rapidly. so what about inside? the type a is called a ribbon microphone. that's because behind the perforated cover is exactly that, a ribbon of metal. with the help of one of the trusty bbc engineering manual...

Petula clark, there. so while setting off singing careers and directing the second world war, the microphone was clearly doing something right operationally, too. eyes had been on the ground—breaking ribbon microphone invented by rca, the radio corporation of america, but it was a little too expensive so, in true bbc form, they made their own for less than 10% of what rca were charging. nice going. the type a stayed in use by the bbc from 193a until 1959. a whole 25 years. that is a long time when technology was developing so rapidly. so what about inside? the type a is called a ribbon micro...

The microphone was clearly doing something right operationally, too. eyes had been on the ground—breaking ribbon microphone invented by rca, the radio corporation of america, but it was a little too expensive so, in true bbc form, they made their own for less than 10% of what rca were charging. nice going. the type a stayed in use by the bbc from 193a until 1959. a whole 25 years. that is a long time when technology was developing so rapidly. so what about inside? the type a is called a ribbon microphone. that's because behind the perforated cover is exactly that, a ribbon of metal. with the...

Careers and directing the second world war, the microphone was clearly doing something right operationally, too. eyes had been on the ground—breaking ribbon microphone invented by rca, the radio corporation of america, but it was a little too expensive so, in true bbc form, they made their own for less than 10% of what rca were charging. nice going. the type a stayed in use by the bbc from 193a until 1959. a whole 25 years. that is a long time when technology was developing so rapidly. so what about inside? the type a is called a ribbon microphone. that's because behind the perforated cover ...