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    Jan 20, 2022 4 minutes

    BBC at 100 PART 2

    “The corporation was expanding so quickly that even the luxurious Broadcasting House was too small from the beginning”

    On Saturday 26 September 1931, less than a decade after its creation, the BBC began the eight-month-long task of packing its bags and moving from the cramped rabbit warren of Savoy Hill to a gleaming purpose-built headquarters building in Portland Place. When the first programmes were broadcast from this new home the following May, the occasion did not just mark a more comfortable working life for staff – it announced the BBC’s arrival as a grand institution at the heart of the nation. The BBC had described Savoy Hill as the place where it had “spent its childhood and grew up to man’s

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