1933 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1933.

• 10 March – The BBC holds a memorial concert for its late Director of Music, Percy Pitt, in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London.

• 28 May – Washford transmitting station begins broadcasting the BBC Regional Programme for the West of England.

• 16 August – The BBC unveils a Compton organ in The Concert Hall of Broadcasting House, London.

• 28 August – For the first time, the BBC broadcasts the description of a wanted criminal suspect – Stanley Hobday who has committed murder in the course of a burglary in West Bromwich. He is recognised from the description near Carlisle and in due course tried and executed.

• 28 October – Broadcast of the earliest surviving BBC location recording, Night on London’s River: Westminster to the Docks.

• BBC executive Colonel Alan Dawnay begins to meet with the head of MI5, Sir Vernon Kell, to trade information informally on potentially subversive staff.

• The BBC acquires a roller skating rink in west London and begins its reconstruction as the Maida Vale Studios.

• 18 November – In Town Tonight begins on the BBC National Programme.

• 16 April – Joan Bakewell, broadcaster

• 12 December – Tony Brandon, presenter