This is a list of events from British radio in 1925.
Events 4 July – The Meteorological Office's Shipping Forecast is first broadcast by the BBC. 27 July – The British Broadcasting Company's Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill, Daventry in central England opens as the world's first longwave broadcast radio transmitter (call sign: 5XX), taking over from its Chelmsford facility.
Births 17 February – Joy Nichols, Australian-born musical comedy performer (died 1992) 25 May – Derek Cooper, food writer and broadcaster (died 2014) 15 June – Richard Baker, broadcaster (died 2018) 19 June – Charlie Drake, comedian (died 2006) 28 July – Kenneth Alwyn, orchestral conductor (died 2020) 8 September – Peter Sellers, comedy actor (died 1980) 19 September – Pete Murray, DJ 22 September – William Franklyn, actor (died 2006) 27 October – Monica Sims, radio executive (died 2018) 11 November – June Whitfield, comedy actress (died 2018)
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