Emeritus Professor David Hendy

David Hendy is emeritus professor at the University of Sussex. His latest book is The BBC: A People’s History (Profile, 2022)

Black America on British airwaves.

The striking, surrealism-influenced Radio Times cover shows the transmitter mast at Alexandra Palace

Radio Times at 100: a "vivid running commentary" on a century of British life

David Dimbleby commands the studio during the May 1997 general election

BBC at 100Into the digital age.

Protesters gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the 2003 Hutton inquiry into claims, broadcast on the BBC, that the case for war in Iraq had been “sexed up”.

BBC at 100Rocked by scandal.

Jazz singer Adelaide Hall at Radiolympia, 1947

BBC at 100Entry into the television age.

Anthony Eden addresses BBC cameras in 1956

BBC at 1001950s friction between government and the BBC.

Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)

BBC at 100How EastEnders saved the BBC.

Episode 8What can history tell us about its future?.

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100Sounds of the Sixties.

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

BBC at 100The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough.

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain.

Episode 6Political tensions in the 1970s and 80s.

Episode 5Change & innovation in 60s Britain.

BBC at 100Captivating little citizens.

Episode 4TV takes off in the 1950s.

Episode 3The corporation at war.

Episode 2Establishment values in the 1930s.

Episode 1Audio adventures in the 1920s.

BBC employees at work in the control room at the new home at Broadcasting House (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100Broadcasting House: a new home for the BBC.

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain's most famous institutions.