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Band Waggon
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Band Waggon

Broadcast · 1938 · Fortnightly

BBC

BBC · 1938–1939

Broadcasts

6

Cadence

Fortnightly

Rated

PG

Since

1938

The run

Network
BBC
Years active
1938–1939
Surviving broadcasts
6
Genre
comedy

Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch in the flat at the top of Broadcasting House: the first BBC comedy built as a returning series with its own running characters. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive's surviving off-air recordings.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: band-waggon

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1938
1939
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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