The cast of 'The Man With the Flower in his Mouth', the first television drama ever staged, transmitted by the fledgling Baird Television Service on 14 July 1930.
August anniversaries
Family Favourites
1 August 1945
Sailor
5 August 1976
It's a Knockout
7 August 1966
First BBC Promenade Concert
13 August 1927
The Weakest Link
14 August 2000
Junior Masterchef
14 August 1994
Launch of 1Xtra
16 August 2002
Dr Finlay's Casebook
16 August 1962
The Marriage Lines
16 August 1963
Observer reveals MI5 vetting of BBC staff
18 August 1985
Why Don't You...?
20 August 1973
The Moral Maze
20 August 1990
First experimental BBC TV Programme
22 August 1932
Match of the Day begins
22 August 1964
BBC Monitoring
26 August 1939
Radio 5 launches
27 August 1990
First live TV from the continent
27 August 1950
Start of experimental stereo broadcasting
28 August 1962
Elizabeth Cowell first female TV announcer
31 Aug 1936
The Monocled Mutineer
31 August 1986
Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow
31 August 2002
The Battle of Britain
Summer 1940
