British radio abroad
The Empire of the BBC
The BBC's reach beyond London: home-grown detective serials, sketch comedy and the light entertainment format the Commonwealth stations borrowed wholesale.
1938 – 1953 · 5 stops · 2h 15m
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The BBC's own detective serial, still playing by the genre's postwar rules.
- 2
The wartime sketch show that became a national habit.
- 3
An earlier attempt at the same trick — two comedians and a flat above Broadcasting House.
- 4
RAF comedy carried into peacetime, still trading on rank and uniform.
- 5
The BBC's own horror anthology, in the mould of the American originals.
