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This microphone. he spent the last few months uncovering its story and here it is. not many are around these days, especially ones that work. it became tradition at the corporation to empty the insides and plate them with gold as leaving presents for announcers. but what a thing to have on your mantelpiece. the good news is here at the bbc we have plenty. you'll notice it looks pretty hefty, and it's actually really big. so it tended to stay in the studios and leave the world travel to its smaller counterparts, but what it missed in adventure it made up for in the circles it socialised in. it ...

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...

All of the -- let's call it push back that we've gotten for telling the truth that day. >> harry dunn, it's great to talk with you. i've got to start by asking, how are you all doing? you know, i mean, we saw the violence from our tv screens but those of you, as you said, as your former train 23450e. i took the blows, beatings. >> it's hard to speak for everybody. type a personalities like to just get over it, just move on. these hearings and the information that keeps coming out about what happened that day makes it harder to do that. i try to stay in front of it. i'm very public and in contr...

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...

British singer and legend petula clark began her career aged nine in front of a type a. now you are going back a bit. now it's time to send along personal messages and greetings to you... it was just to say hello, we are ok, don't worry about us, and give a little bit of home news, and that was it. air raid siren wails. during rehearsal, there was the most enormous air raid and the producer asked if one of the kids could come up and sing a song or say a piece of poetry, to calm things down. so i go up on stage and they put a box so i could reach the microphone, it was one of those big bbc micr...