100 years of the BBC in Wales: an uneasy start and unclear future

Three months after the BBC’s first transmission from London, public service broadcasting in Wales began at 5.00pm on February 13 1923. The small studio above a cinema in the centre of Cardiff also served audiences in the west of England. This may explain the very limited amount of Welsh language material broadcast at the outset.

To ensure the British Broadcasting Company, as it was then known, was in no doubt about…

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