What was on the TV or Radio the day you were born?

All I know is that my mother was being bombed...I arrived at 6.00 am but the doctor couldn't get through.

She never forgot it!

No TV when I was born! Radio - probably ITMA and Workers' Playtime.

(Why didn't my italics work?)

How fascinating! On the Light Programme, there was ^Forces Educational Broadcast PLAIN ENGLISH
' Unaccustomed As I Am to Public Speaking': H. M. Burton gives some hints on addressing an audience, small or large, if the need arises'^
Given that my careers included
a. being in the Forces
and b. teaching / examining public speaking

TV: nothing. It had been suspended for the duration. Radio: Home programme wall-to-wall music most of it classical, interspersed with items on jam making, gardening and home nursing. The music included piano music and works by Beethoven. That explains my enjoyment of both.

Whether I heard any of it is doubtful. In the days of keeping women in hospital and in bed for a fortnight after giving birth, I was probably wrapped up in the anodyne quietness of King's College Hospital's mother and baby ward.

Well, it was relentless jollity on the Light Programme on my big day. Wilfred Pickles in Have a Go!, Billy Cotton's Band Show, Beryl Reid and Benny Hill in Archie's the Boy, Life with the Lyons, Take it from Here with Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield, Terry-Thomas in Talk of the Town, George Cole's A Life of Bliss. All woven around International Hit Parade - "A gramophone programme of the top records from Czechoslovakia based on information supplied by the Czechoslovak Embassy".

Haven't checked yet to see what was on[though my family didn't get a tv until 1962.]However, the King was still on the throne at that time, and Winston Churchill was Prime Minister when I was born. I do remember my Mother listening to the radio a lot and me enjoying Listen With Mother[was that Daphne Oxenford?]

Starling I didn't know that either!
Do you think the BBC could be heard in Norway too?

I was born in the early hours so radio unlikely.
My mother must have heard the start of the war announcement already knowing she was pregnant........

Bythe way, the BBC Military Band was made up from the wind players, woodwind and brass, from the London Symphony Orchestras - so it was probably rather good!

The day I was pupped, the BBC National Programme featured a new play, [i]Nikki Makes News[/i] with music by Mr. Spike Hughes.

On the Regional programme at 9 there was Speedway Racing, commentary by Commander C O Foley and John N Lampson,and at 9:20 the BBC Military Band

TV? Well it had started the previous year, but viewers, or 'lookers-in' were counted in the low hundreds! It was 1937 after all...

rubysong I'm guessing you were a December baby!

If the radio was on during home births, and the time of birth is known, we could even discover what music people were born to!!

At the moment I was being born the Rhyl Silver Band were playing in the radio programme 'Bright and Early ' but I don't suppose my mother was listening. There seemed to be a lot of music in the Home Service, also a talk by the Very Rev. John Tiarks, Provost of Bradford on the 'Bethlehem Story', Philip Harben was 'In the Kitchen' making rich shortbread and Petula Clark was introducing a music programme.
On TV there was a children's Christmas story, Tom Arnold's Harringay Circus and an American comedy called 'Spotlight Scandals.

AlieOxon yes I see the day of your arrival seems to have been marked by the News in Norwegian three times!!? I know there was a war on.... ah, have just found out that the Norwegian government was operating in exile in London at that time..... I didn't know that before

Galen

The site won't let me put my birthday in - I can have the month or the day but not both - it jumps back the month before when I click on the date

Apparently the king made an evening broadcast. Didn't know I was that important
Also the home guard stood down!

I HAD ARRIVED, THE WORLD WAS SAVED!

This is mine:
genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbchomeservice/basic/1940-07-21

I always knew I was born on a Sunday.
No TV, it started again after the war.

But why the news in a) Norwegian ?
and b) Welsh - didn't know there were any Welsh programmes then!

There was no TV when I was born and I suspect that there was no radio either as it was 7.35 am on a Wednesday. I was born three weeks late, in my Granny's front room (because 3rd floor, one bed flat with outside toilet was family home) with cord around my neck. Says it all really - Mother tried to strangle me at birth, always late, perpetually full of woe

Have checked DH's birthday now - he missed:

"An enquiry into schoolboys' shoes
Conducted by Isobel Barnett in co-operation with the footwear industry"

This was part of a programme called 'Mainly for Women LOOK AND CHOOSE'

Did they not need to inquire into schoolgirls' shoes as well, I wonder?

(Which reminds me, I actually remember spending my childhood correcting TV announcers when they said things about boys that applied to me too )

I can't remember but I'm told it was a sunday

On the day I was born (a Wednesday, DH says he always wondered why I was full of woe).

Radio:

Mrs Dale's Diary
Housewive's choice
Lift Up Your Hearts
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Music While You Work
Womans Hour including a story read by Daphne Oxenford
Charlie Chester and his Crazy Gang
TV
A demonstration film
The News (sound only)

Blimey I am REALLY old

I and both my sons were Tuesday's children - 'full of grace'.

Isn't that marvellous! And I have just discovered for the first time ever that I was born on a Monday.

On the day I was born Franklin D Roosevelt was re-elected (uniquely) for a third period as President of the USA. I understand (though don't remember) that Big Ben was striking 9 for the 9 o'clock news on the wireless at the moment I was born. There was, of course no TV in 1940.

No Tv but radio programmes were fascinating. A discussion on Equal Opportunity in Education, lots of schools programmes and the wonderful long mourned Children's Hour.