From my Radio Websites column in Radio User, May 2013
The National
Media Museum in Bradford is worth a trip if you are in Yorkshire. I went
recently and there is plenty to see over eight floors. The basement covers the
history of photography, and there is plenty for the radio listener and
television watcher too. Sets from Wallace and Gromit and Morph always go down
well, the display of vintage Radio Times caught my eye and the video vault
enables you to choose a programme and watch at your leisure in a booth. Our
choice of the first ever Dr Who episode was quite something – the paucity of
the script, set and film work made us wonder who it ever got commissioned for a
second series! www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
Tours are
available of the New Broadcasting House in London and details of these 90 minutes of
the tour are at www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/tours/bh_london.shtml
If you would like a
virtual tour of Television Centre’s final days, I’d point you to the Flickr
stream of Kris Wood at http://www.flickr.com/photos/krisdwood/ as well as reading
the article on 14 March 2013 of the Londonist http://londonist.com/
While
dwelling on past Beeb buildings you might like this last look inside Bush
House. A blog called Normal Stop covers BBC World Service equipment and studio
operations in Bush House from the late 1950s to the last transmission on 12th
July 2012. http://radiooperations.blogspot.co.uk/
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