This is a list of events related to British television in 1932.
Events 22 August – The BBC starts a regular experimental television service, using John Logie Baird's 30-line mechanical system. EMI demonstrate electronic television, with up to 3 times as many lines as Baird's mechanical system, to the BBC.
Births 12 January – Des O'Connor, television personality and singer (died 2020) 6 March – Jean Boht, née Dance, actress (died 2023) 17 April – Tony Bilbow, presenter and screenwriter 21 April – Bob Grant, comic actor (died 2003) 25 April – William Roache, actor (Coronation Street) 8 May – Phyllida Law, Scottish-born actress 22 June – Prunella Scales, actress (died 2025) 8 July – Brian Walden, journalist, broadcaster and member of parliament (died 2019) 2 August – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish-born actor (died 2013) 7 August – Edward Hardwicke, actor (died 2011) 9 August – Reginald Bosanquet, journalist and news presenter (died 1984) 20 August – Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004) 21 August – Barry Foster, actor (Van der Valk) (died 2002) 4 September – Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003) 25 September – Brian Murphy, comedy actor (died 2025) 26 September – Andrew Gardner, journalist and newsreader (died 1999) 28 September – Jeremy Isaacs, producer and executive 30 October – Janice Willett, producer with ABC Weekend TV (died 2018) 20 November – Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host (died 2012)
See also 1932 in British music 1932 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1932
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