Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2015
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On This Day, 1968: Dad's Army first episode
On July 31st, 1968, episode one of Dad's Army, "in which our hero forms a platoon of Local Defence Volunteers to defend our island home", was broadcast.
Over to You: What have you found so far?
You might have noticed by now that we have begun to link Genome listings to the thousands of TV and radio programmes which are already available on the BBC website. What have you found so far? Share your archive gems and unusual finds with us.
On This Day, 1948: the opening of the first televised Olympics
The broadcasting and televising of the London 1948 Olympics was described as "the biggest operation of its kind that the BBC has ever undertaken."
On This Day, 1958: an armchair voyage to Istanbul
On July 28, 1958, you would have hopped on a cruise with Sir Mortimer Wheeler and the Hellenic Traveller's club to Istanbul and the Islands. You can now make that trip again on this archive programme on the BBC iPlayer.
On This Day, 1925: BBC Daventry LW transmitter
The Daventry Transmitter, which opened on 27 July 1925, was the world's first Long Wave transmitting station.
Watch and listen to 8,500 programmes on the BBC website
Today, any BBC Genome user can sift through millions of listings for BBC radio and TV programmes from 1923 to 2009. What if we told you that around 8,500 of these programmes are also permanently available online to watch and listen to?
When a blog is not a blog
As we started working on the brand new BBC Genome blog, it seemed appropriate to do the equivalent of googling ourselves: what do you get if you search for "blog" on BBC Genome? When were blogs first mentioned in radio and TV listings?
