02 November 1936
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BBC Television
Source: TV & Radio Bits http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/tellyyears (The Radio Times London Edition 1-7 November 1936)
- 15.00 Opening of the BBC Television Service
- by Major the Rt Hon GC Tryon Postmaster General, Mr RC Norman (chairman of the BBC) and the Rt Hon Lord Selsdon
- 15.15 Interval
- Time, Weather
- 15.20 British Movietone News
- 15.30 Variety
- Adele Dixon (musical comedy star), Buck and Bubbles (comedians and dancers), The Lai Founs (Chinese jugglers) and the BBC Television Orchestra
- 16.00 Closedown
- a chart arranged in co-operation with the Air Ministry will forecast the weather
- 21.00 Programme Summary
- 21.05 Television Comes to London
- This film suggests, by means of simple pictorial sequences, some of the events that have preceded the opening of the BBC Television Service
- 21.20 Picture Page
- Magazine programme, featuring interviews with transatlantic flyer Jim Mollison, tennis champion Kay Stammers, King's Bargemaster Bossy Phelps, plus ghost stories from Algernon Blackwood
- 21.50-22.00 British Movietone News
