This is a list of events from British radio in 1943.
Events January 6 January – BBC reporter Richard Dimbleby makes a live recording from a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid over Berlin piloted by Guy Gibson. 15 January – Fernand Grenier broadcasts on Radio Londres offering Communist support for Free France.
February 12 February – The BBC Ottringham transmitting station in east Yorkshire goes live for broadcast of propaganda to Europe.
March March – A BBC radio adaptation of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children is broadcast.
April to May Spring – The BBC Monitoring service moves from Wood Norton Hall, Worcestershire, to Caversham Park and Crowsley Park, near Reading, Berkshire.
June 24 June – Ralph Vaughan Williams conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the premiere of his Fifth Symphony at a BBC Proms Concert in the Royal Albert Hall.
September 4 September – BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.
October 17 October – The BBC Woofferton transmitting station in Shropshire begins shortwave broadcasts. Late October – Gustav Siegfried Eins, a British black propaganda station, ceases broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe on the short wave, ostensibly because of a Gestapo raid.
November 14 November – Soldatensender Calais, a British black propaganda station, begins broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe from a studio at Milton Bryan in Bedfordshire through the powerful medium wave Aspidistra transmitter in Sussex, purporting to be an official German military station. 23 November – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation serving forces overseas. 25–26 November – The BBC premieres The Rescue: a melodrama for broadcasting, based on the conclusion of Homer's Odyssey, written by Edward Sackville-West with music by Benjamin Britten.
December 3 December – London-based American war reporter Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS describing an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.
Debuts 2 August – This Week's Composer on the BBC Home Service (1943–Present) (continuing as Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3) Caribbean Voices on the BBC World Service (1943–1958)
Continuing radio programmes 1930s In Town Tonight (1933–1960)
1940s Music While You Work (1940–1967) Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018) Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
Births 29 January – Tony Blackburn, DJ 18 February – Graeme Garden, Scottish-born comedy performer 6 April – Roger Cook, Australasian-born investigative reporter (died 2026) 14 May – John Cushnie, Northern Ireland landscape designer and gardening broadcaster (died 2009) 30 May – Charles Collingwood, Canadian-born actor 17 August – John Humphrys, Welsh-born news broadcaster 11 September – Brian Perkins, New Zealand-born newsreader 28 September – Mike Dickin, DJ and presenter (died 2006) 18 October – Dai Jones, Welsh broadcaster (died 2022) 23 October – Roger Scott, DJ (died 1989) 26 November – Paul Burnett, DJ
Deaths 20 November – Rev. George Bramwell Evens ('Romany'), broadcaster and writer on countryside matters (born 1884)
See also 1943 in British music 1943 in British television 1943 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1943
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