Stanford Robinson and the Wireless Chorus at the BBC studios, Savoy Hill, in 1928. (Click on image to enlarge).
1924: Stanford Robinson is engaged by the BBC as its first Chorus Master, based at the Savoy Hill studios in London.
He recruits a choir of professional singers who make their debut - as the Wireless Chorus - in a broadcast of Rutland Boughton's The Immortal Hour on 2 October. Frequent broadcasts follow, and conductorswho work with the group in the next few years include Elgar, Stravinsky, Schoenberg - and the young John Barbirolli.
1926: The Sunday night Epilogue begins and soon becomes a popular fixture in the broadcasting schedule.
1927: The Wireless Singers are established - a full-time octet of singers from the Wireless Chorus.
Listen to R3
