This is a list of events related to
British television
Regular television broadcasts in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection ...
in 1932.
Events
*22 August – The
BBC starts a regular experimental television service, using
John Logie Baird's 30-line mechanical system.
*
EMI demonstrate
electronic television, with up to 3 times as many lines as Baird's mechanical system, to the
BBC.
Births
* 12 January –
Des O'Connor, television personality and singer (died 2020)
* 17 April –
Tony Bilbow, presenter and screenwriter
* 21 April –
Bob Grant, comic actor (died 2003)
* 25 April –
William Roache, actor (''
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.
Origi ...
'')
* 8 May –
Phyllida Law, Scottish-born actress
* 22 June –
Prunella Scales, actress
* 8 July –
Brian Walden, journalist, broadcaster and Member of Parliament (died 2019)
* 2 August –
Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (; 2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was a British stage and film actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic ...
, British-Irish-born actor (died 2013)
* 7 August –
Edward Hardwicke
Edward Cedric Hardwicke (7 August 1932 – 16 May 2011) was an English actor, who had a distinguished career on the stage and on-screen. He was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in ''Colditz'' (1972-73), and Dr. Watson in Granada Te ...
, actor (died 2011)
* 9 August –
Reginald Bosanquet, journalist and news presenter (died 1984)
* 20 August –
Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
* 21 August –
Barry Foster, actor (''
Van der Valk'') (died 2002)
* 4 September –
Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
* 26 September –
Andrew Gardner, journalist and newsreader (died 1999)
* 30 October –
Janice Willett
Janice Willett (30 October 1932 – 6 November 2018) was a British television producer with ABC Weekend TV, ABC Television during the 1950s and 1960s, at the time being one of only a few female producers working in television.
Her television caree ...
, producer with
ABC Weekend TV (died 2018)
* 20 November –
Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host (died 2012)
See also
*
1932 in British music
This is a summary of 1932 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
*7 October – The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent, gives its first public concert.
*''date unknown'' – Henry Hall becomes ...
*
1932 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
* Monarch – George V
* Prime Minister – Ramsay MacDonald (Coalition)
* Parliament – 36th
Events
* 1 January — the English Folk Dance and Song Society holds its first festival ...
*
List of British films of 1932
References
{{Years in TV by country, 1932