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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: First BBC Broadcast (14/11/1922)
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It was the British Broadcasting _Company_ at this time, owned by a 
consortium of wireless companies, who feared the "chaos" attendant on 
the expansion of radio broadcasting in the USA at the time.

Business-wise it did not work out very well, and in 1927 it was taken 
over by the government and became a "Corporation", with a public-service 
"charter".

"Its first operating license restricted broadcasting to news and 
information from just four news agencies. Daily broadcasts began in 
Marconi's London studio, 2LO...in the Strand. A news bulletin went out 
at 5:33 p.m., along with a weather report, spoken by the Director of 
Programmes, Arthur Burrows, in an authoritative RP accent."
Burrows also played Father Christmas in _The Truth About Father 
Christmas_, thought to be the first broadcast drama. And he was the 
first "Uncle Arthur" on _The Children's Hour_.

So the RP accent became known as "BBC English". The Advisory Committee 
on Spoken English was set up in 1926 to provide approved pronunciations 
for new words and foreign names, and as an authority to support news 
readers against the inevitable complaints. A fascinating body in which 
both Daniel Jones and George Bernard Shaw were involved.

My impression is that it was not until the 1970s that a wider range of 
accents began to be heard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC