Capturing the song of the nightingale

The first outside broadcast ever made by the British Broadcasting Company from a natural location was the Nightingale broadcast of 19 May 1924, in which the world-famous virtuoso cellist Beatrice Harrison performed a ‘duet’ with nightingales in her garden. The broadcast was made possible by the Marc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iain Logie Baird
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Museum, London 2015-11-01
Series:Science Museum Group Journal
Subjects:
BBC
Online Access:http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-04/capturing-the-song-of-the-nightingale/