'Rob's original Wireless Singers': Stanford Robinson and the Wireless Singers in 1932
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1930: the Wireless Singers make their first record, and appear at the Proms.
1931: The Wireless Singers perform at the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Oxford - the first time it has been held in Britain.
1932: Cyril Dalmaine is appointed Chorus Master and reorganises the BBC choral groups. The BBC moves to its new home - Broadcasting House in Portland Place.
1934: Leslie Woodgate becomes Chorus Master - a post he will hold for over twenty-five years.
Peter Pears is recruited to the tenor section. The group premieres Benjamin Britten's A Boy was Born to great acclaim.
1938: After the first performance of Webern's cantata Das Augenlicht, at the ISCM festival in London, a critic describes the group as "probably unrivalled in Europe".
1939: At the outbreak of war, the BBC's musicians are evacuated to Bristol.
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