{"id":29683,"date":"2017-12-17T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29683"},"modified":"2017-12-17T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T12:38:46","slug":"bbc-genome-project-releases-1930s-editions-of-radio-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/bbc-genome-project-releases-1930s-editions-of-radio-times\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Genome Project releases 1930s editions of Radio Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBC-Radio-Times-1930s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29684\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBC-Radio-Times-1930s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBC-Radio-Times-1930s.jpg 544w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BBC-Radio-Times-1930s-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/genome\/entries\/f6f6f01f-cbed-49d1-b10c-1df091af8e4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Genome Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The BBC Genome Project is releasing the next batch of pages from Radio Times, this time covering the 1930s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Genome users will now be able to access the articles,\u00a0<a title=\"1930s\" href=\"http:\/\/genome.ch.bbc.co.uk\/issues#decade-1930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial material, letters pages, illustrations and photographs from the 1930s<\/a>. We hope this will help users correct some of the errors in the Genome data &#8211; as well as gain insights into broadcasting during this fascinating period.<\/p>\n<p>The 1930s was a turbulent decade. The country had to cope with the worldwide depression and mass unemployment that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929.\u00a0In 1936, King George V died, but his successor Edward VIII abdicated at the end of the year, to be replaced by George VI, his younger brother. Internationally, the decade was marked by the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and the sequence of events which culminated in the outbreak of war in September 1939.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"History of the BBC 1930s\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/timelines\/zqbfyrd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It was a period of change in broadcasting too<\/a>. At the start of the 1930s the BBC was still overseen by Sir John Reith, its first Director General. In 1932, the BBC moved from its cramped headquarters at Savoy Hill to the purpose-built Broadcasting House.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/genome\/entries\/f6f6f01f-cbed-49d1-b10c-1df091af8e4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to continue reading on the BBC Genome Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source BBC Genome Blog) The BBC Genome Project is releasing the next batch of pages from Radio Times, this time covering the 1930s. Genome users will now be able to access the articles,\u00a0editorial material, letters pages, illustrations and photographs from the 1930s. We hope this will help users correct some of the errors in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288],"tags":[104,3320,3322,4568],"class_list":["post-29683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-genome-project","tag-radio-times","tag-the-radio-times"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7IL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11108,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-bbc-genome-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":29683,"position":0},"title":"The BBC Genome Project","author":"Thomas","date":"October 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0Mike Barraclough who shares this news: \"BBC has today launched a website publishing every BBC programme ever broadcast by the Corporation from digitised editions of the Radio Times 1923-2009. Getting occasional internal errors at the moment presumably due to heavy use following publicity. 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