6 March – First BBC broadcast from
Glasgow (station 5SC).[2] It broadcasts excerpts from an opera.[3]
19 March – First BBC outside broadcast in Scotland, from the Coliseum Theatre, Glasgow.[2]
26 March – First broadcast of a dance band, by Marius B Winter and his Dance Orchestra.[4]
April
April – First BBC broadcast of an SOS message, for a woman to attend the bedside of her dying brother.[5]
May
2 May – Women's Hour, the first BBC programme for women (and predecessor of the later Woman's Hour), is broadcast.
24 May 1923 – The first live broadcast of a dance band, The
Carlton Hotel Dance Band, leader Ben Davis.[4]
30 May – BBC Cardiff (station 5WA) broadcasts the first full performance of a new orchestral opera.[3]
31 May – Yorkshire-born
Norman Clapham makes his BBC debut as 'John Henry', one of the first comedians to adapt to the medium of radio.[6][7]
June
6 June –
Edgar Wallace broadcasts from
The Derby for the BBC, becoming the first British radio sports journalist.[8]
September
28 September – Vol. 1 No. 1 of The Radio Times, the world's first broadcast listings magazine, detailing official programmes of the
British Broadcasting Company for the week commencing Sunday 30 September, is published.[9][10][11]
September – The BBC delivers its first live non-musical outside broadcast, relaying a speech by
Ernest Rutherford from a
British Association meeting held at the
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. The speech is relayed to Manchester and London, and from London to Glasgow, Newcastle, Cardiff and Birmingham, and broadcast from each of those cities.[12]
17 October – Official opening of the BBC's
6BM Bournemouth radio station, the first programme of which, at 8 pm, is the Bournemouth Municipal Military Band conducted by Captain W. Featherston.[b][13][15]
November
16 November – First BBC broadcast from
Sheffield (station 2FL).
December
2 December – The first
BBC radio broadcast in
Gaelic language is broadcast throughout
Scotland. It is a 15-minute religious address by Rev. John Bain, recorded in the
HighUnited Free Church in
Aberdeen. Two weeks later, a recital of Gaelic singing is aired.
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