A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio News. 1920s 1922 18 October – The British Broadcasting Company is formed. 14 November – First BBC broadcasts from London (station 2LO) and the opening day saw the broadcast of the very first BBC News bulletin. Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7pm and to force it to use wire service copy instead of reporting on its own. 1923 No events. 1924 No events. 1925 No events. 1926 4 May – The General strike begins and the BBC broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are published. 1927 No events. 1928 No events. 1929 6 March – Week in Westminster is broadcast for the first time. 1930s 1930 No events. 1931 No events. 1932 No events. 1933 No events. 1934 Following it gaining the right to edit its own bulletins, the BBC creates its own news operation. 1935 No events. 1936 No events. 1937 No events. 1938 3 January – The BBC begins broadcasting its first foreign-language radio service, in Arabic. 1939 Creation of BBC Monitoring. 1940s 1940 11 May – The BBC starts a news service in Hindi. 1941 No events. 1942 No events. 1943 No events. 1944 No events. 1945 9 October – The first edition of Today in Parliament is broadcast. 1946 BBC Radio bulletins began to be began simulcast on television with a still picture of Big Ben. 1947 No events. 1948 12 October – The first edition of Any Questions? is broadcast, initially broadcast as a six-week fortnightly series, a six-programme series on West of England Home Service. 1949 September – Any Questions? becomes a weekly programme, still broadcast for the West Country but with a national repeat six days later. 1950s 1950 September – Any Questions? starts being broadcast live across the UK on the BBC Light Programme with the repeat on the Home Service. 1951 No events. 1952 No events. 1953 2 June – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey is broadcast by the BBC and is broadcast on both the Home Service and on The Light Programme. 1954 October – Any Answers? a feedback spin-off from Any Questions?, is broadcast on the Home Service for the first time. 1955 The first edition of From Our Own Correspondent is broadcast. 1956 No events. 1957 28 October – The