1943 in British radio

This is a list of events from British radio in 1943.

January

 * 6 January – BBC reporter Richard Dimbleby makes a live recording from a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid over Berlin piloted by Guy Gibson.

February

 * 12 February – The BBC Ottringham transmitting station in east Yorkshire goes live for broadcast of propaganda to Europe.

March

 * March – A BBC radio adaptation of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children is broadcast.

April to May

 * Spring – The BBC Monitoring service moves from Wood Norton Hall, Worcestershire, to Caversham Park and Crowsley Park, near Reading, Berkshire.

June

 * 24 June – Ralph Vaughan Williams conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the premiere of his Fifth Symphony at a BBC Proms Concert in the Royal Albert Hall.

September

 * 4 September – BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.

October

 * 17 October – The BBC Woofferton transmitting station in Shropshire begins shortwave broadcasts.
 * Late October – Gustav Siegfried Eins, a British black propaganda station, ceases broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe on the short wave, ostensibly because of a Gestapo raid.

November

 * 14 November – Soldatensender Calais, a British black propaganda station, begins broadcasting to German troops in Western Europe from a studio at Milton Bryan in Bedfordshire through the powerful medium wave Aspidistra transmitter in Sussex, purporting to be an official German military station.
 * 23 November – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation serving forces overseas.

December

 * 3 December – London-based American war reporter Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS describing an RAF nighttime bombing raid over Berlin.

Debuts

 * 2 August – This Week's Composer on the BBC Home Service (1943–Present) (continuing as Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3)
 * Caribbean Voices on the BBC World Service (1943–1958)

1930s

 * In Town Tonight (1933–1960)

1940s

 * Music While You Work (1940–1967)
 * Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
 * Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)

Births

 * 29 January – Tony Blackburn, DJ
 * 18 February – Graeme Garden, Scottish-born comedy performer
 * 6 April – Roger Cook, Australasian-born investigative reporter
 * 30 May – Charles Collingwood, Canadian-born actor
 * 17 August – John Humphrys, Welsh-born news broadcaster
 * 11 September – Brian Perkins, New Zealand-born newsreader
 * 28 September – Mike Dickin, DJ and presenter (died 2006)
 * 18 October – Dai Jones, Welsh broadcaster (died 2022)
 * 23 October – Roger Scott, DJ (died 1989)
 * 26 November – Paul Burnett, DJ

Deaths

 * 20 November – Rev. George Bramwell Evens ('Romany'), broadcaster and writer on countryside matters (born 1884)