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A selection of images showing the history of the Christmas broadcast

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BBC Broadcasting House at the time of its opening in 1932

Broadcasting House, London

  • BBC Yearbook 1930 'Good Listening'
  • Sir John Reith established The Empire Service allowing King George V’s first Christmas Broadcast to be heard across the globe
  • The BBC starts broadcasting to The Empire in 1932
  • Light signals 1932 used for the first Christmas broadcast in 1932
  • BBC Broadcasting House at the time of its opening in 1932
  • Radio Control Room at Broadcasting House, Christmas Day in the early 1930s
  • One of the first radio control rooms at the new Broadcasting House in 1932.
  • A BBC microphone from 1932
  • Radio Times 1932 front cover
  • Radio Times 1932 inside
  • King George VI broadcasting to The Empire in 1937
  • Press announcement from 1957 - For the first time the Queen would appear in vision for the Christmas Broadcast
  • King George VI broadcasting to The Empire in 1944
  • The Queen broadcasting her first Christmas message in 1952.
  • The Queen’s first televised message in 1957.
  • The Queen photographed for her 1960 Broadcast with her corgi, Sugar, by her side!
  • The Queen photographed in 1967 at the time of the recording of her first television broadcast in colour.
  • Behind the scenes on the first colour broadcast in 1967
  • 11 year old Prince Andrew and 7 year old Prince Edward during the recording of The Queen’s Christmas broadcast 1971.
  • The Queen and Producer, Sir David Attenborough in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace
  • Queen's Christmas Broadcast 1990
  • Kirsty Young in the Green Drawing Room, Windsor Castle
  • Kirsty and Tony Locantro at the EMI Archives
  • Kirsty Young Filming in the Long Library, Sandringham

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