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items: Radio Times 100: Test your knowledge with our centenary quiz

Radio Times 100: Test your knowledge with our centenary quiz
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date: 2023-09-26T10:38:17.000Z
creator: Mark McCaighey
subject: Current Affairs
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subject: Radio Times Centenary
description: It's the ultimate Radio Times-themed quiz!
encoded: To celebrate Radio Times Magazine turning 100, we've got a very challenging quiz from across the decades. Each week, we'll bring you new questions spanning the lifetime of the magazine, starting at the 1920s and 1930s. Be careful as you scroll though, because the answers can be found at the bottom of this page! Let us know how you get on by sending us a message on X, formerly known as Twitter, @RadioTimes. 1920s 1. Priced at tuppence, the first issue of The Radio Times contained a week’s listings for six regional radio stations and a message to “listeners” from BBC Chairman Lord Gainford: “This periodical will each week produce in advance the company’s programmes in a compact and attractive form for the convenience of the public. There will therefore be no chance that particularly interesting or unusual programmes will escape notice.” Which word is missing from RT’s strap line in the image above? a. Arm b. Journal c. Organ 2. In an attempt to boost sales, RT editor Leonard Crocombe commissioned artist Kay to create the first colour cover. It led to a regular Christmas colour cover and established RT as a place to showcase new British graphic art. In which year was the first Christmas and New Year double issue of Radio Times published? a. 1959 b. 1963 c. 1969 3. This second illustrated RT cover became one of the most famous in the magazine’s history. American artist Edwin Austin Abbey’s cheery, colourful Christmas family image was reworked 70 years later by artist Bob Venables and appeared on the cover of the Christmas and New Year double issue in 1994. Artist Vince McIndoe paid tribute to this issue for the 2011 Christmas cover with a pastiche based on which BBC TV series? a. Doctor Who b. Gardeners’ World c. Top Gear 4. The cover was designed by American-born artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. Known as “The Poster King”, he is mainly remembered for the work he produced for both the London Underground and London Transport. The issue included an article from author and …

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