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  • The Ascent of Man first broadcast

    5 May 1973

  • Wedding of Princess Margaret

    6 May 1960

  • VE Day broadcasts

    8 May 1945

  • First gardening programme

    9 May 1931

  • The Queen’s Hall destroyed by bombing

    10 May 1941

  • Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

    12 May 1937

  • First episode of Bucknell's House

    14 May 1962

  • Broadcasting House opens

    15 May 1932

  • Strictly Come Dancing

    15 May 2004

  • The Debussy film debuts

    18 May 1965

  • Beatrice Harrison, cello and nightingale duet

    19 May 1924

  • Churchill's first broadcast as Prime Minister

    19 May 1940

  • Thomas Woodrooffe at the Coronation Fleet Review

    20 May 1937

  • Opening of Lime Grove Studios

    21 May 1950

  • Eurovision first broadcast

    24 May 1956

  • That's Life

    26 May 1973

  • Doctor Who returns with Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor

    27 May 1996

  • The Goon Show

    28 May 1951

  • First TV interview by a member of the Royal Family

    29 May 1961

  • The Great War

     30 May 1964

  • Tumbledown

    31 May 1988

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