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On this day 104 years ago, the first advertised public radio broadcast took place. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin...The BBC is 100 years not out – just – but with no recordings from its first decade, comedian/writer Paul Kerensa (BBC’s Miranda, Not Going Out, Top Gear) retells and recreates its first broadcasts.
Experience the first drama (starring Father Christmas), comedy (cockney character ‘Our Lizzie’), sport (horse-racing), children’s (starring Susan the blue cat with yellow spots) and much more.
Expect century-old gramophone players, radios and jokes, plus rare clips and live re-enactments, from drunken opera to the forgotten first DJ.
Paul has advised the BBC on their own history (on Radio 4’s The Media Show and Six O’Clock News) and continues to write for today’s BBC comedy shows. But he’s happiest at the 1922 BBC, when it had 30,000 listeners but only four employees.
This fascinating true tale of Auntie Beeb’s baby steps informs, educates but above all entertains.
“Top comic, top writer” LEE MACK
“As effortless a writer as he is a performer” THE STAGE
“Paul has a brilliant way of bringing these stories to life. I’ve worked in radio for decades but didn’t know any of this tale of how broadcasting began” - review of Paul’s radio history podcast The British Broadcasting Century!
Ages: 13+
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Quarry Theatre at St Luke's, 26 St Peter's Street,Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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