Times pass for hourly bulletins
Will podcasts replace newsreaders in the state broadcaster's digital strategy?
Some 86 years ago, at the start of a dull Easter weekend, BBC listeners who tuned in to the hourly bulletin heard an unusual announcement. The flood of regular news items had dried up. And so, intoned the presenter, “there is no news.”
So he played a jolly old gramophone record instead.
It was
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