The Royal Family and Winston Churchill on the balcony at Buckingham Palace, VE-Day 8 May 1945.
May anniversaries
Bread
1 May 1986
Top of the Form
1 May 1948
First VHF transmitter opens at Wrotham
2 May 1955
Horizon first transmitted
2 May 1964
Luther
4 May 2010
The Ascent of Man first broadcast
5 May 1973
Wedding of Princess Margaret
6 May 1960
VE Day broadcasts
8 May 1945
First gardening programme
9 May 1931
The Queen’s Hall destroyed by bombing
10 May 1941
First episode of Bucknell's House
14 May 1962
Broadcasting House opens
15 May 1932
Strictly Come Dancing
15 May 2004
The Debussy film debuts
18 May 1965
Beatrice Harrison, cello and nightingale duet
19 May 1924
Thomas Woodrooffe at the Coronation Fleet Review
20 May 1937
Opening of Lime Grove Studios
21 May 1950
Eurovision first broadcast
24 May 1956
That's Life
26 May 1973
The Goon Show
28 May 1951
The Great War
30 May 1964
Tumbledown
31 May 1988
