On this day in1930 the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio replaced its 8:45 p.m. new bulletin from London with 15 minutes of piano music, after announcing, “Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news.” The piano music played for the 15-minute duration was the Wagner opera Parsifal being performed from the Queen’s Hall, London.
The idea of there not being any news, of course, seems unlikely but the BBC news team felt there was nothing worthy of reporting on for their wireless service. It came at a time before technology made the world a much smaller place, where events happening on the opposite side of the world could be reported immediately.
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