1943 in British radio

Events

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.
• 15 January – Fernand Grenier broadcasts on Radio Londres offering Communist support for Free France.

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 Caribbean Voices on the BBC World Service

Continuing radio programmes

1930s

• ''In Town Tonight''

1940s

• ''Desert Island Discs''

Births

• 29 January – Tony Blackburn, DJ
• 18 February – Graeme Garden, Scottish-born comedy performer
• 6 April – Roger Cook, Australasian-born investigative reporter
• 14 May – John Cushnie, Northern Ireland landscape designer and gardening broadcaster
• 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
• 18 October – Dai Jones, Welsh broadcaster
• 23 October – Roger Scott, DJ
• 26 November – Paul Burnett, DJ

Deaths

• 20 November – Rev. George Bramwell Evens, broadcaster and writer on countryside matters