OTD: 18th April

Difficult as it may be to conceive of in the current 24-hour news cycle (and especially over recent years), on 18 April 1930 the BBC evening news opened with the announcer declaring "There is no news".

Piano music was then played for the remainder of the 15-minute news slot until, at 9pm, the wireless service returned to its broadcast of Wagner's 'Parsifal' from Queen's Hall in Langham Place.

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