1934 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1934.

Events

 * 23 February
 * Edward Elgar dies, leaving unfinished his Symphony No. 3, commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, who will premiere its realised version in 1998.
 * Benjamin Britten's choral variations A Boy Was Born are premiered in a BBC radio concert of contemporary music with Leslie Woodgate conducting the Wireless Chorus and choirboys of St Mark's, North Audley Street, London.
 * 6 September – The BBC's most powerful long-wave transmitter, Droitwich Transmitting Station, starts transmitting regularly at 200 kilohertz, following test transmissions from 8 May. From 7 October it takes over from Daventry 5XX as the main station radiating the BBC National Programme.
 * 29 November – Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark at Westminster Abbey, the first wedding to be broadcast live on radio.
 * 25 December – King George V Christmas Broadcast.
 * A former London roller skating rink reopens as the BBC's Maida Vale Studios which becomes the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
 * The Northern Studio Orchestra is renamed the BBC Northern Orchestra.
 * EKCO introduces its distinctive round bakelite radio cabinets in the United Kingdom.

Births

 * 4 March – John Dunn, radio presenter (died 2004)
 * 5 June – Bryon Butler, radio football correspondent (died 2001)
 * 26 August – Gordon Clough, radio journalist (died 1996)
 * 18 December – Michael Freedland, journalist, biographer and broadcaster in London (You Don't Have To Be Jewish) (died 2018)

Deaths

 * 14 May – Norman Clapham, radio comedian as John Henry, suicide (born 1879)