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E28: Countdown #79: Delisted

For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.”  The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented.  ____________ There a…

The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History

100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his new 'televisor' to the public for the first time. In this special edition of Front Row, Samira Ahmed and guests explore the origins of television in the UK, charting how those early experimental days set a template for this exciting new medi…

John Logie Baird invents television

On 26 January 1926, John Logie Baird first demonstrated his 'televisor' in public. It was the prototype for television. Many people couldn't believe what they were seeing whilst others thought it was a pointless invention. In 2010, Iain Logie Baird, the inventor's grandson, spoke to Claire Bowes.Ey…

Fancy a pub desk?

Last week: “No more pubs, Norm”This week: WFP. Keir needs a pint Just listened to the King’s Speech - very underwhelming. Bit low energy (probably had enough of the red pen.) Good to hear “legislation will be introduced to tackle late payments” to support small biz, but what about the huge burden …

E42: In Living Color (1954): The Day Television Went Over the Rainbow | 100 Years of Television #65

On January 1, 1954, television crossed a technological threshold that had been decades in the making: color. In this episode of Countdown to the Centennial, we trace the long road from early color experiments by John Logie Baird and others to the industry-defining breakthrough engineered by RCA un…

Half Pint Q&A: Where Is the 'Real' Scotland?

What does the "real" Scotland actually look like? Is it a remote island, a bustling city, a Highland glen... or somewhere else entirely? In this listener Q&A episode of This is Scotland, Ally Heather and Coinneach MacLeod, the Hebridean Baker, share the places they believe capture Scotland at its …

127 - TWISH - Andrew Carnegie & John Logie Baird

TSHP15 FOR 15% OFF YOUR RABBIE'S TOUR WHEN YOU BOOK AT RABBIES.COM! This week in Scottish History We celebrate the births of 2 fascinating men. Starting with Andrew Carnegie, the businessman and philanthropist who gave away over 90% of his wealth during his life. But also controversial in how he ma…

LISTEN: A Child Sex Offender Spared Deportation, "Jesus Loves You" Gets Your Insurance Cancelled & Chris Bowen's $400,000 Trip | Jeremy Cordeaux's Court of Public Opinion

Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, and the anger is close to the surface. He opens on a London insurer threatening to cancel a driver's policy unless he removes a "Jesus loves you" sign from his Nissan — supposedly because it raises the risk of vandalism — and asks what has become…

Scottish Inventors and Innovations: The Small Country That Changed Everything

Scotland has a population of around five million people. It has also given the world the telephone, the television, radar, the MRI scanner, penicillin, insulin, anaesthesia, the hypodermic needle, ultrasound scanning, the refrigerator, the vacuum flask, the toaster, the raincoat, the pneumatic tyre…