First broadcast of Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Chapel, Cambridge, by the BBC. Radio calisthenics (ラジオ体操, rajio taisō), daily exercises, first broadcast on NHK in Japan, Endings 22 April – The Acousticon Hour ends its run on network radio. Births 16 January – Menchu Álvarez del Valle, Spanish radio journalist (died 2021) 21 May – Tom Donahue, pioneering American rock and roll radio disc jockey and freeform rock pioneer (died 1975) 6 June – R. D. Wingfield, English radio dramatist and detective novelist (died 2007) 19 June – Barry Took, English comedy writer and broadcast presenter (died 2002) 2 July – John Timpson, English radio news presenter (died 2005) 17 August – Willem Duys, Dutch radio/television host (died 2011) 17 September – Brian Matthew, English disc jockey (died 2017) 20 October – Michael O'Donnell, English physician, journalist, medical campaigner and broadcaster (died 2019) 9 November – Wim Bosboom, Dutch radio/television host References Radio by year