Radio 3's Soundscape Of A Century

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1920s

20221030

Radio 3 invites listeners to press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic, eight-hour soundscape. Seismic events, cultural landmarks, unforgettable voices and BBC history, all woven together with the greatest classical music of the age. Radio 3's Soundscape of a Century is a sonic celebration, not a year-by-year chronology or a complete history, but an evocative soundtrack of the era, its music and culture, as heard on the BBC.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

The BBC started its first daily radio service in 1922. We hear its iconic first words on air, plus audio from the corporation's ground-breaking early transatlantic broadcasts. The Roaring Twenties are soon in full swing, with music at their heart. We hear music by Walton, Ravel, Gershwin and Janက?ek, intertwined with the words of James Joyce and King George V. Soon the century begins to take a darker turn with the general strike and the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Archive:

1922 First BBC transmission `2LO calling`

1926 Second Transatlantic broadcast

1924 James Joyce reads from Ulysses

1923 Lord Gainford (Chairman of the BBC) reads the news 'broadcasting has come to stay

1924 King George V opens the Empire Exhibition

1924 The Pips First Heard

1926 BBC Radio announcements during the General Strike

1924 'Danger!' first play written for radio

1929 Newsreel describing the Wall St Crash

1927 Henry Wood describes first season of the Proms

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

1930s

20221030

The 1930s dawn and the BBC continues to launch new ideas, including the forerunner of the World Service and a newfangled invention, television. Meanwhile, some of the greatest composers of the 20th century are creating masterpieces: we hear music by Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Hindemith. The BBC reports as one king dies, another abdicates and a third is crowned. Hitler's Berlin Olympics are dominated by the success of American athlete Jesse Owens as Europe moves inexorably towards war.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

1938 Opening tour of BBC Broadcasting House

1932 Start of Empire (World) Service

1932 King George V makes Empire Service Christmas speech

1932 Prohibition raid on Al Capone

1936 TS Eliot reads Murder in the Cathedral

1932 H G WELLS lecture Modern Conditions

1936 Adolf Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics

1936 Footage of Jesse Owens winning gold at Berlin Olympics

1936 Opening night of BBC Television

1936 Newsreel announcement of death of George V

1936 Edward VIII broadcasts on BBC to abdicate throne

1938 Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds

1937 Thomas Woodrooffe commentary on The Coronation Review of the Fleet

1937 BBC news speaks to women who watched the Coronation

1939 Despatch by Richard Dimbleby on refugees from Spanish Civil War

1939 News report of failed assassination of Hitler

1939 Neville Chamberlain addresses nation on BBC to declare war

1939 An evacuee speaks to BBC

~Radio 3's Soundscape Of A Century is a sonic celebration, not a year-by-year chronology or a complete history, but an evocative soundtrack of the era, its music and culture, as heard on the BBC.

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

1940s

20221030

The 1940s. Once again the world is gripped by the horror of war. We hear seminal BBC broadcasts from Winston Churchill and General de Gaulle alongside newsreel from Dunkirk and Leningrad. No part of society is untouched by the war, least of all music, and we hear reflections from Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams and Messiaen. Britain starts to rebuild and we hear familiar voices: Kathleen Ferrier, Vera Lynn and `king of calypso` Lord Kitchener. The National Health Service is formed and BBC listeners tune in for the first time to Desert Island Discs and Woman's Hour.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

1940 Churchill's First Address as PM

1940 BBC news archive from Dunkirk

1940 Postscript on Home Service - JB Priestly reflects on Dunkirk

1940-41 War time BBC news reports

1942 BBC broadcasts the UK premiere of Leningrad Symphony

1942-44 BBC news footage from Siege of Leningrad

1945 Programme of worship from Belsen concentration camp after liberation

1945 VE Day Winston Churchill in Trafalgar Square

1948 Lord Kitchener talks to BBC News report after disembarking from Empire Windrush

1948 Aneurin Bevan and Edith Summerskill speak about fledgling NHS; Broadcasts from the year NHS is founded

1942 Desert Island Discs begins

1947 Gardener's Question Time begins

1946 Woman's Hour Begins (Ruby Ayres talks in this edition from 1949)

1946 BBC Television promotion film from Alexandra Palace

1947 Princess Elizabeth addresses nation on her 21st birthday

~Radio 3's Soundscape Of A Century is a sonic celebration, not a year-by-year chronology or a complete history, but an evocative soundtrack of the era, its music and culture, as heard on the BBC.

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

1950s

20221030

The 1950s sees the Festival of Britain and the dawning of the TV age, while over on radio, Hancock's Half Hour receives its first broadcast. The UK mourns a king and ushers in a new Elizabethan age with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Politics remains turbulent - there's war in Korea and a crisis in the Suez Canal. We're introduced to the 'Teddy Boy' and hear the voices of Igor Stravinsky and Salvador Dal퀀. There's contemporary music by Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Leonard Bernstein and Elizabeth Maconchy, and the unforgettable voice of Paul Robeson.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

1951 King George VI opens the Festival of Britain; BBC news archive from the Festival of Britain

1954 Zoo Quest with David Attenborough

1952 Watch with Mother (BBC)

1951 BBC Newsreel - the TV age

1954 BBC newsreel Roger Bannister runs a sub 4 minute mile

1952 News announcement of death of King George VI

1953 Newsreel as Queen Elizabeth II is crowned

1959 Monitor: Leonard Bernstein interview

1954 Hancock's Half Hour begins

1955 Special Enquiry - The Teddy Boys

1958 Monitor: Igor Stravinsky interview

1955 BBC newsreel on Vietnam War

1950 BBC newsreel President Eisenhower on Korean War

1956 PM Anthony Eden address to nation on Suez crisis; news reports on Suez protests

1954 BBC newsreel celebrates the end of Rationing

1958 Paul Robeson talks down Telegram line at the Eisteddfodd

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

1960s

20221030

With the 1960s comes pioneering electronic experimentation, with Stockhausen, Carlos and Derbyshire forging bold new musical pathways. As Beatlemania takes hold, composers Berio, Britten and Riley develop similarly new musical languages. We hear newsreel from the shocking assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King and, as the space race heats up, the USA has a shot at the Moon.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

1962 newsreel on Consecration of Coventry Cathedral; Britten War Requiem premiere

1965 Tomorrow's World: Delia Derbyshire & the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

1964 Grandstand: the Beatles

1968 Paul McCartney BBC interview

1963 March on Washington - Martin Luther King speech

1960s BBC breaking news

1964 Opening night of BBC 2

1960 BBC Television Centre opening night

1967 Radio Leicester first local radio station broadcast

1963 Match of The Day first broadcast

1961 Points of view first broadcast

1968 News reports from Paris student riots

1961 newsreel Yuri Gargarin first man in space

1964-1969 The Sky at Night (BBC)

1962 JFK and NASA archive © NASA

1969 Apollo 11 © NASA

1962 In Town Today Mary Quant interview

1968 newsreel on Rostropovich at the Proms

1967 Harold Wilson broadcast on devaluation of Pound

1966 World Cup win for England - commentary

1966 Interview with Bobby Moore

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

1970s

20221030

The 1970s see yet another change of direction with the rise of minimalism in music and works by composers Reich, Glass, Rautavaara and P䀀rt. The term `Watergate` becomes infamous, Saigon falls and the United Kingdom enters its Winter of Discontent. We hear a bold collaboration between violinist Yehudi Menuhin and sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and as the decade draws to a close, the UK elects its first female prime minister.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

1972 BBC news report on Watergate break in

1973-74 President Nixon press conferences

1975 Today programme (BBC) on the Fall of Saigon

1975 Today programme on Saigon

1979 Conversations with Artists - Andy Warhol

1971 The Morecambe and Wise Show (BBC - Eddie Braben)

1971 BBC news report on decimalisation

1972 News report and interview with Father Daly in aftermath of Bloody Sunday

1976 Menuhin (BBC2) Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin

1975 Fawlty Towers (BBC - John Cleese and Connie Booth)

1973 Today programme - Britain joins the EU

1976 PM Drought minister Denis Howell

1972 Statement from Olympic committee

1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC)

1979 BBC news statement by Anthony Blunt

1975 David Bowie BBC interview

1978 Margaret Thatcher in Commons

1978 BBC news footage

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

1980s

20221030

The 1980s sees the dawn of the computer age, welcome relief as the UK recovers from the turmoil of the Falklands conflict and miners' strike. We'll remember much loved broadcasts from Eastenders and Michael Palin, and hear the voices of Maya Angelou and Stephen Hawking. There's music by John Tavener and Mark-Anthony Turnage, John Adams and Joan Tower, and remember a historic concert, with Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

1983 Sixty Minutes: Personal computers

1986 Micro Live - Electronic Mail

1982 BBC news coverage The Falklands War

1987 BBC Weather - Michael Fish

1981 The Money Programme - The Rubik's Cube

1984 BBC news coverage of the Miners Strike

1985 Wogan - Bob Geldof interview

1985 BBC News - Live Aid

1983 Riverside: Tony Wilson interview

1986 Eastenders - Den serves divorce papers

1984 In the Psychiatrists Chair - Maya Angelou

1988 Desert Island Discs - Stephen Hawking

1980 Profile - Peter Maxwell Davies

1989 Around the World in 80 Days - Michael Palin (BBC)

1989 BBC News - George Bush

1989 BBC News - Berlin Wall opened Brian Hanrahan

1989 BBC News - Kate Adie in Tiananmen Square

Relive 100 years of the BBC with a soundscape of classical music & sounds from the archive

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

1990s

20221030

The 1990s. New Labour and Cool Britannia become buzzwords and Pavarotti and G　recki take the pop charts by storm. The United Kingdom loses a beloved princess, while South Africa gains a new president. There's hope in Northern Ireland on Good Friday, but horror in Kosovo. The UK hears new music by Ad耀s, Birtwistle causes a rumpus at the BBC Proms and every Sunday night the country stops to spend time with Mr Darcy on the BBC.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

1997 BBC news election results

1998 BBC news item on Brit Pop 'https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/p01wvk3s

1999 Close Up: Mad Tracey From Margate (BBC) - Tracy Emin interview

1998 BBC Newsnight - Kirsty Wark on Kosovo

1997 BBC radio announcement of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales

1997 BBC news report on Mother

1997 Tony Blair press call

1990 Statement from BBC news on Nelson Mandela's release; interview with Desmond Tutu

1994 BBC news Nelson Mandela sworn in as President

1997 Blue Peter - interview with JK Rowling

1995 Points of View - Ann Robinson on complaints from BBC Proms

1992 Ghostwatch (BBC - Screen One)

1992 Points of View item on Ghostwatch

1995 Pride and Prejudice (BBC)

1990 BBC news report - unification of Germany

1998 BBC news / BBC NI reports on Good Friday agreement

1990 Grandstand introduction by Des Lynam

1990 BBC news item Bobby Charlton presents Pavarotti with a platinum disc

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

2000s

20221030

The world enters a new millennium and we see events that will rock the world for years to come: the Boxing Day Tsunami, 9/11, 7/7, the war in Iraq and a global financial crisis. The Large Hadron Collider is switched on and the iPhone is launched, Hilary Mantel begins the Wolf Hall books and Doris Lessing is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. And Barack Obama is inaugurated president. As ever, music offers commentary, comfort and commemoration: we hear new works by Max Richter, Unsuk Chin and Gabriel Prokofiev, and experience the exuberance of the Sim　n Bol퀀var Youth Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

2000 BBC news - the Millennium begins

2001 BBC news President Bush

2001 BBC Proms Leonard Slatkin announces Barber's Adagio

2001 Blue Planet (BBC)

2004 BBC Young Musician - Nicola Benedetti

2003 BBC news. Items on the Iraq War

2005 BBC news 7/7 attacks in London

2004 BBC news Boxing Day Tsunami

2008 BBC news large Hadron Collider switched on

2011 Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy (BBC)

2004 Strictly Come Dancing (BBC)

2005 The Apprentice (Talkback)

2007 BBC news Doris Lessing

2009 Open Book : Hilary Mantel

2008 BBC news financial crisis in America

2012 BBC news Barack Obama speaks after winning presidential election

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

2010s

20221030

The 2010s are witness to new political upheaval as Donald Trump is elected US president and the UK votes to leave the EU. There's a miraculous rescue in Chile and Great Britain unites behind its athletes at the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Wimbledon. The musical landscape is more vibrant than ever: we hear music by Anna Meredith, Missy Mazzoli, John Luther Adams and Caroline Shaw.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

2014 Today Programme item on Marriage Act

2015 BBC news coverage of EU referendum

2017 BBC news on Grenfell fire

2010 BBC news Haiti Earthquake

2017 BBC news Chilean Earthquake

2019 BBC News Greta Thunberg speech at UN

2012 BBC news interview with Felix Baumgartner

2017 BBC news - Donald Trump

2016 BBC news Philae Lander wakes up

2012 Line of Duty (World Productions)

2012 Loose Ends - Lemm Sissay recites The Spark Catchers

2012 BBC news opening of London 2012

2012 Radio 5Live commentary 'Super Saturday

2013 Radio 5Live commentary Wimbledon

2011 Woman's Hour Margaret Atwood interview

2017 Woman's Hour Jenni Murray on #metoo

2018 Woman's Hour coverage of Women's March

2010 Sherlock (BBC/ Hartswood Films)

2010 Newsround item on Chilean miners

2017 BBC news Thai school football team rescue

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

2020s

20221030

It's the 2020s. As we draw closer to the present day, the world struggles to contain a pandemic and bids farewell to the UK's longest-reigning monarch. Time to welcome in the next 100 years of classical music and the BBC.

For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury

Archive:

2020 BBC news George Floyd

2020 BBC Radio 1 Clara Amfo

2020 BBC news Covid reports and Prime Minister's address to the nation

2020 An Address by Her Majesty The Queen - Coronavirus - BBC

2022 BBC breaking news Huw Edwards on the death of HM the Queen

2021 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

2022 BBC news Inauguration of Joe Biden - Amanda Gorman

2021 BBC Breakfast Marcus Rashford interview

Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive.

Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.

Episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Comments
01	1920s	20221030	Radio 3 invites listeners to press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic, eight-hour soundscape. Seismic events, cultural landmarks, unforgettable voices and BBC history, all woven together with the greatest classical music of the age. Radio 3's Soundscape of a Century is a sonic celebration, not a year-by-year chronology or a complete history, but an evocative soundtrack of the era, its music and culture, as heard on the BBC. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury The BBC started its first daily radio service in 1922. We hear its iconic first words on air, plus audio from the corporation's ground-breaking early transatlantic broadcasts. The Roaring Twenties are soon in full swing, with music at their heart. We hear music by Walton, Ravel, Gershwin and Janက?ek, intertwined with the words of James Joyce and King George V. Soon the century begins to take a darker turn with the general strike and the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Archive: 1922 First BBC transmission `2LO calling` 1926 Second Transatlantic broadcast 1924 James Joyce reads from Ulysses 1923 Lord Gainford (Chairman of the BBC) reads the news 'broadcasting has come to stay 1924 King George V opens the Empire Exhibition 1924 The Pips First Heard 1926 BBC Radio announcements during the General Strike 1924 'Danger!' first play written for radio 1929 Newsreel describing the Wall St Crash 1927 Henry Wood describes first season of the Proms Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
02	1930s	20221030	The 1930s dawn and the BBC continues to launch new ideas, including the forerunner of the World Service and a newfangled invention, television. Meanwhile, some of the greatest composers of the 20th century are creating masterpieces: we hear music by Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Hindemith. The BBC reports as one king dies, another abdicates and a third is crowned. Hitler's Berlin Olympics are dominated by the success of American athlete Jesse Owens as Europe moves inexorably towards war. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 1938 Opening tour of BBC Broadcasting House 1932 Start of Empire (World) Service 1932 King George V makes Empire Service Christmas speech 1932 Prohibition raid on Al Capone 1936 TS Eliot reads Murder in the Cathedral 1932 H G WELLS lecture Modern Conditions 1936 Adolf Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics 1936 Footage of Jesse Owens winning gold at Berlin Olympics 1936 Opening night of BBC Television 1936 Newsreel announcement of death of George V 1936 Edward VIII broadcasts on BBC to abdicate throne 1938 Orson Welles broadcast of War of the Worlds 1937 Thomas Woodrooffe commentary on The Coronation Review of the Fleet 1937 BBC news speaks to women who watched the Coronation 1939 Despatch by Richard Dimbleby on refugees from Spanish Civil War 1939 News report of failed assassination of Hitler 1939 Neville Chamberlain addresses nation on BBC to declare war 1939 An evacuee speaks to BBC ~Radio 3's Soundscape Of A Century is a sonic celebration, not a year-by-year chronology or a complete history, but an evocative soundtrack of the era, its music and culture, as heard on the BBC. Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
03	1940s	20221030	The 1940s. Once again the world is gripped by the horror of war. We hear seminal BBC broadcasts from Winston Churchill and General de Gaulle alongside newsreel from Dunkirk and Leningrad. No part of society is untouched by the war, least of all music, and we hear reflections from Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams and Messiaen. Britain starts to rebuild and we hear familiar voices: Kathleen Ferrier, Vera Lynn and `king of calypso` Lord Kitchener. The National Health Service is formed and BBC listeners tune in for the first time to Desert Island Discs and Woman's Hour. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 1940 Churchill's First Address as PM 1940 BBC news archive from Dunkirk 1940 Postscript on Home Service - JB Priestly reflects on Dunkirk 1940-41 War time BBC news reports 1942 BBC broadcasts the UK premiere of Leningrad Symphony 1942-44 BBC news footage from Siege of Leningrad 1945 Programme of worship from Belsen concentration camp after liberation 1945 VE Day Winston Churchill in Trafalgar Square 1948 Lord Kitchener talks to BBC News report after disembarking from Empire Windrush 1948 Aneurin Bevan and Edith Summerskill speak about fledgling NHS; Broadcasts from the year NHS is founded 1942 Desert Island Discs begins 1947 Gardener's Question Time begins 1946 Woman's Hour Begins (Ruby Ayres talks in this edition from 1949) 1946 BBC Television promotion film from Alexandra Palace 1947 Princess Elizabeth addresses nation on her 21st birthday ~Radio 3's Soundscape Of A Century is a sonic celebration, not a year-by-year chronology or a complete history, but an evocative soundtrack of the era, its music and culture, as heard on the BBC. Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
04	1950s	20221030	The 1950s sees the Festival of Britain and the dawning of the TV age, while over on radio, Hancock's Half Hour receives its first broadcast. The UK mourns a king and ushers in a new Elizabethan age with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Politics remains turbulent - there's war in Korea and a crisis in the Suez Canal. We're introduced to the 'Teddy Boy' and hear the voices of Igor Stravinsky and Salvador Dal퀀. There's contemporary music by Shostakovich, Richard Strauss, Leonard Bernstein and Elizabeth Maconchy, and the unforgettable voice of Paul Robeson. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 1951 King George VI opens the Festival of Britain; BBC news archive from the Festival of Britain 1954 Zoo Quest with David Attenborough 1952 Watch with Mother (BBC) 1951 BBC Newsreel - the TV age 1954 BBC newsreel Roger Bannister runs a sub 4 minute mile 1952 News announcement of death of King George VI 1953 Newsreel as Queen Elizabeth II is crowned 1959 Monitor: Leonard Bernstein interview 1954 Hancock's Half Hour begins 1955 Special Enquiry - The Teddy Boys 1958 Monitor: Igor Stravinsky interview 1955 BBC newsreel on Vietnam War 1950 BBC newsreel President Eisenhower on Korean War 1956 PM Anthony Eden address to nation on Suez crisis; news reports on Suez protests 1954 BBC newsreel celebrates the end of Rationing 1958 Paul Robeson talks down Telegram line at the Eisteddfodd Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
05	1960s	20221030	With the 1960s comes pioneering electronic experimentation, with Stockhausen, Carlos and Derbyshire forging bold new musical pathways. As Beatlemania takes hold, composers Berio, Britten and Riley develop similarly new musical languages. We hear newsreel from the shocking assassinations of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King and, as the space race heats up, the USA has a shot at the Moon. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury 1962 newsreel on Consecration of Coventry Cathedral; Britten War Requiem premiere 1965 Tomorrow's World: Delia Derbyshire & the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1964 Grandstand: the Beatles 1968 Paul McCartney BBC interview 1963 March on Washington - Martin Luther King speech 1960s BBC breaking news 1964 Opening night of BBC 2 1960 BBC Television Centre opening night 1967 Radio Leicester first local radio station broadcast 1963 Match of The Day first broadcast 1961 Points of view first broadcast 1968 News reports from Paris student riots 1961 newsreel Yuri Gargarin first man in space 1964-1969 The Sky at Night (BBC) 1962 JFK and NASA archive © NASA 1969 Apollo 11 © NASA 1962 In Town Today Mary Quant interview 1968 newsreel on Rostropovich at the Proms 1967 Harold Wilson broadcast on devaluation of Pound 1966 World Cup win for England - commentary 1966 Interview with Bobby Moore Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
06	1970s	20221030	The 1970s see yet another change of direction with the rise of minimalism in music and works by composers Reich, Glass, Rautavaara and P䀀rt. The term `Watergate` becomes infamous, Saigon falls and the United Kingdom enters its Winter of Discontent. We hear a bold collaboration between violinist Yehudi Menuhin and sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and as the decade draws to a close, the UK elects its first female prime minister. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 1972 BBC news report on Watergate break in 1973-74 President Nixon press conferences 1975 Today programme (BBC) on the Fall of Saigon 1975 Today programme on Saigon 1979 Conversations with Artists - Andy Warhol 1971 The Morecambe and Wise Show (BBC - Eddie Braben) 1971 BBC news report on decimalisation 1972 News report and interview with Father Daly in aftermath of Bloody Sunday 1976 Menuhin (BBC2) Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin 1975 Fawlty Towers (BBC - John Cleese and Connie Booth) 1973 Today programme - Britain joins the EU 1976 PM Drought minister Denis Howell 1972 Statement from Olympic committee 1979 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC) 1979 BBC news statement by Anthony Blunt 1975 David Bowie BBC interview 1978 Margaret Thatcher in Commons 1978 BBC news footage Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
07	1980s	20221030	The 1980s sees the dawn of the computer age, welcome relief as the UK recovers from the turmoil of the Falklands conflict and miners' strike. We'll remember much loved broadcasts from Eastenders and Michael Palin, and hear the voices of Maya Angelou and Stephen Hawking. There's music by John Tavener and Mark-Anthony Turnage, John Adams and Joan Tower, and remember a historic concert, with Leonard Bernstein conducting Beethoven after the fall of the Berlin Wall. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 1983 Sixty Minutes: Personal computers 1986 Micro Live - Electronic Mail 1982 BBC news coverage The Falklands War 1987 BBC Weather - Michael Fish 1981 The Money Programme - The Rubik's Cube 1984 BBC news coverage of the Miners Strike 1985 Wogan - Bob Geldof interview 1985 BBC News - Live Aid 1983 Riverside: Tony Wilson interview 1986 Eastenders - Den serves divorce papers 1984 In the Psychiatrists Chair - Maya Angelou 1988 Desert Island Discs - Stephen Hawking 1980 Profile - Peter Maxwell Davies 1989 Around the World in 80 Days - Michael Palin (BBC) 1989 BBC News - George Bush 1989 BBC News - Berlin Wall opened Brian Hanrahan 1989 BBC News - Kate Adie in Tiananmen Square Relive 100 years of the BBC with a soundscape of classical music & sounds from the archive Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
08	1990s	20221030	The 1990s. New Labour and Cool Britannia become buzzwords and Pavarotti and G　recki take the pop charts by storm. The United Kingdom loses a beloved princess, while South Africa gains a new president. There's hope in Northern Ireland on Good Friday, but horror in Kosovo. The UK hears new music by Ad耀s, Birtwistle causes a rumpus at the BBC Proms and every Sunday night the country stops to spend time with Mr Darcy on the BBC. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 1997 BBC news election results 1998 BBC news item on Brit Pop 'https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/p01wvk3s 1999 Close Up: Mad Tracey From Margate (BBC) - Tracy Emin interview 1998 BBC Newsnight - Kirsty Wark on Kosovo 1997 BBC radio announcement of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1997 BBC news report on Mother 1997 Tony Blair press call 1990 Statement from BBC news on Nelson Mandela's release; interview with Desmond Tutu 1994 BBC news Nelson Mandela sworn in as President 1997 Blue Peter - interview with JK Rowling 1995 Points of View - Ann Robinson on complaints from BBC Proms 1992 Ghostwatch (BBC - Screen One) 1992 Points of View item on Ghostwatch 1995 Pride and Prejudice (BBC) 1990 BBC news report - unification of Germany 1998 BBC news / BBC NI reports on Good Friday agreement 1990 Grandstand introduction by Des Lynam 1990 BBC news item Bobby Charlton presents Pavarotti with a platinum disc Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
09	2000s	20221030	The world enters a new millennium and we see events that will rock the world for years to come: the Boxing Day Tsunami, 9/11, 7/7, the war in Iraq and a global financial crisis. The Large Hadron Collider is switched on and the iPhone is launched, Hilary Mantel begins the Wolf Hall books and Doris Lessing is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. And Barack Obama is inaugurated president. As ever, music offers commentary, comfort and commemoration: we hear new works by Max Richter, Unsuk Chin and Gabriel Prokofiev, and experience the exuberance of the Sim　n Bol퀀var Youth Orchestra at the BBC Proms. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 2000 BBC news - the Millennium begins 2001 BBC news President Bush 2001 BBC Proms Leonard Slatkin announces Barber's Adagio 2001 Blue Planet (BBC) 2004 BBC Young Musician - Nicola Benedetti 2003 BBC news. Items on the Iraq War 2005 BBC news 7/7 attacks in London 2004 BBC news Boxing Day Tsunami 2008 BBC news large Hadron Collider switched on 2011 Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy (BBC) 2004 Strictly Come Dancing (BBC) 2005 The Apprentice (Talkback) 2007 BBC news Doris Lessing 2009 Open Book : Hilary Mantel 2008 BBC news financial crisis in America 2012 BBC news Barack Obama speaks after winning presidential election Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
10	2010s	20221030	The 2010s are witness to new political upheaval as Donald Trump is elected US president and the UK votes to leave the EU. There's a miraculous rescue in Chile and Great Britain unites behind its athletes at the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Wimbledon. The musical landscape is more vibrant than ever: we hear music by Anna Meredith, Missy Mazzoli, John Luther Adams and Caroline Shaw. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 2014 Today Programme item on Marriage Act 2015 BBC news coverage of EU referendum 2017 BBC news on Grenfell fire 2010 BBC news Haiti Earthquake 2017 BBC news Chilean Earthquake 2019 BBC News Greta Thunberg speech at UN 2012 BBC news interview with Felix Baumgartner 2017 BBC news - Donald Trump 2016 BBC news Philae Lander wakes up 2012 Line of Duty (World Productions) 2012 Loose Ends - Lemm Sissay recites The Spark Catchers 2012 BBC news opening of London 2012 2012 Radio 5Live commentary 'Super Saturday 2013 Radio 5Live commentary Wimbledon 2011 Woman's Hour Margaret Atwood interview 2017 Woman's Hour Jenni Murray on #metoo 2018 Woman's Hour coverage of Women's March 2010 Sherlock (BBC/ Hartswood Films) 2010 Newsround item on Chilean miners 2017 BBC news Thai school football team rescue Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.
11	2020s	20221030	It's the 2020s. As we draw closer to the present day, the world struggles to contain a pandemic and bids farewell to the UK's longest-reigning monarch. Time to welcome in the next 100 years of classical music and the BBC. For more information about what you're hearing, visit BBC.co.uk/soundscapeofacentury Archive: 2020 BBC news George Floyd 2020 BBC Radio 1 Clara Amfo 2020 BBC news Covid reports and Prime Minister's address to the nation 2020 An Address by Her Majesty The Queen - Coronavirus - BBC 2022 BBC breaking news Huw Edwards on the death of HM the Queen 2021 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World 2022 BBC news Inauguration of Joe Biden - Amanda Gorman 2021 BBC Breakfast Marcus Rashford interview Relive 100 years of the BBC: a soundscape of classical music and sounds from the archive. Press rewind on a century of the BBC with an epic 8-hour soundscape of archive and music.