Arthur Burrows was one of the first employees of the British Broadcasting Company

British Broadcasting Company

The British Broadcasting Company Ltd was a British commercial company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom and licensed by the British General Post Office...

 and was the first to hold the position of Director of Programmes. Burrows was previously a journalist and also a keen wireless enthusiast. Prior to joining the BBC he was in charge of the original experimental transmissions from Marconi House, the first 2LO

2LO

2LO was the second radio station to regularly broadcast in the United Kingdom . It began broadcasting on 11 May 1922, for one hour a day from the seventh floor of Marconi House in London's Strand...

 station.

Arthur Burrows was truly a man of British broadcasting 'firsts':

• At 6pm on 14 November 1922, he read the BBC's first-ever, on-air news bulletin.
• At 5pm on 24 December 1922, he played Father Christmas in the play 'The Truth About Father Christmas' - considered to be the first official broadcast of a radio drama.
• He was one of the original BBC 'Uncles' ('Uncle Arthur'), the first London wireless Uncle on Children's Hour
  Children's Hour
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