This is a list of events from British radio in 1933.
Events 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. 6 August – Benjamin Britten's Phantasy Quartet, Op. 2 (written in 1932 when the composer was an 18-year-old music student) is premiered in a BBC broadcast with Léon Goossens, its dedicatee, as oboist. 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.
Debuts 18 November – In Town Tonight begins on the BBC National Programme.
Births 16 April – Joan Bakewell, broadcaster 12 December – Tony Brandon, presenter
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