1934 in British radio

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This is a list of events from British radio in 1934.

Events

• 23 February
  • Edward Elgar dies, leaving unfinished his Symphony No. 3, commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, who will premiere its realised version in 1998.
  • St Mark's, North Audley Street, London.^[1]
• 6 September – The BBC's most powerful long-wave transmitter, Droitwich Transmitting Station, starts transmitting regularly at 200 kilohertz, following test transmissions from 8 May.^[2] From 7 October it takes over from Daventry 5XX as the main station radiating the BBC National Programme.
• 29 November – Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark at Westminster Abbey, the first wedding to be broadcast live on radio.^[3]
• 25 December – King George V Christmas Broadcast.

• A former London roller skating rink reopens as the BBC's Maida Vale Studios^[4] which becomes the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
• The Northern Studio Orchestra is renamed the BBC Northern Orchestra.
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  cabinets in the United Kingdom.

Births

• 4 March – John Dunn, radio presenter (died 2004)
• 5 June – Bryon Butler, radio football correspondent (died 2001)
• 26 August – Gordon Clough, radio journalist (died 1996)
• 18 December – Michael Freedland, journalist, biographer and broadcaster in London (You Don't Have To Be Jewish) (died 2018)

Deaths

• 14 May – Norman Clapham, radio comedian as John Henry, suicide (born 1879)^[5]

References