http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:04:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-149345 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 19:19:17 +0000 Lucy4 149345@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There's only the one answer to your question, Skylarking: Mornington Crescent! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-149343 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:08:21 +0000 rikkor 149343@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>They were sending coded messages to pedophiles even back then. Gives new meaning to the Queen's Speech. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-149188 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:57:16 +0000 Tripod 149188@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>On the Now Show this evening, it was announced that the first programme aired on the BBC, 90 years ago, was a repeat of Top Gear. Great line!... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-149187 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:51:28 +0000 Skylarking 149187@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Similar point made by Paul Merton a few years ago re. Baker Street being the first tube station to open a century and a bit ago.<br /> "Where did the trains go?" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-148883 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:52:11 +0000 beau-jolly 148883@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oddly enough I was listening to the wireless last night and Damian Albulm(?) asked the same question of the curator of the transmitter. His answer was that there were loads of radio hams chatting to each other so those in London were able to listen in to the Beeb. It was then transmitted to Manchester and Brum. So the answer is amatuer radio enthusiasts. Not funny but there you go. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-148864 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:16:01 +0000 godly1966 148864@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>They all heard about it on twitter. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-148804 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:30:06 +0000 dvo4fun 148804@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@b-j - whoever had the first one I'd have a fiver on "Just a Minute" being the first thing s/he heard </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-148789 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:24:00 +0000 Tripod 148789@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And what about the first person to install a telephone. How long did they have to wait until there was someone to call? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51725#post-148779 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:55:07 +0000 beau-jolly 148779@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Did anyone else think, "who were they broadcasting to?". Presumably no-one bought a radio just on the off chance that the BBC would start broadcasting.<br /> Did they all chat about it down the pub?<br /> "'Ere, 'ave you 'eard abart that new BBC what 'as started broadcasting and all?"<br /> "We'd better get ourselves a radio so as we can hear what they are sayin'" </p>