30 September 2007

On Sunday afternoon, 30th September, Sean Street is the guest speaker at Dillington House, near Ilchester in Somerset, when he delivers a public lecture entitled "Wireless Wars" on pre-war public service broadcasting and commercial competition. It's an appropriate day - forty years on exactly from the restructuring of BBC Radio, and the launch of Radio 1 in 1967, precipitated by the Offshore "Pirate" stations. Sean's talk will demonstrate that similar pressures were at work in the early 1930s. That same evening, Sean takes part in the BBC Radio 4 anniversary programme, "4 at Forty" at 7.15pm. Tickets for the Dillington House event can be obtained by contacting dhewitt@somerset.gov.uk