The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC

BBC

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 in January 1929 which ceased publication in 1991. The entire digitised catalogue was made available online to libraries, educational and research institutions in 2011.

It was first published on 16 January 1929, under the editorship of Richard S. Lambert

Richard S. Lambert

Richard Stanton Lambert was a biographer, popular historian and broadcaster. He was also the founding editor of The Listener and an employee of the BBC and the CBC. His books mainly concern history and biography but he also wrote about crime, travel, art, radio, film and propaganda...

, and was developed as a medium of record for the reproduction of broadcast talks.