Quote: Chappers @ 2nd September 2014, 8:30 PM BSTI think it was probably Monday Night at 7. Seems to make sense. I was just going to write to the Daily Mail about it but while I was writing it clicked.
Bingo!
Diary from 1939 Page 2
Quote: Chappers @ 2nd September 2014, 6:25 PM BSTWow - thanks for your interest Hercules and Horseradish.
There were several abbreviations which I had to look up on the internet and I have You-Tubed several of the entertainers mentioned.
The f-good was TOTALLY my fault if it's there. It may have been V good and my fat fingers. He would never have dreamed of saying that - especially in a Diary that his family would have seen. Where does it feature?
And MN at 7. I'll have a look for that.
Thought so. Contrary to popular belief, the f word didn't wait until the 1960s to appear on TV but its arrival - via Brendan Behan - was as late as 1956. While I don't have the equivalent information for BBC radio, it is doubtful that it was commonplace in the time of those iconic post Reithians, Alvar Liddell and John Snagge.
Talking of Snagge, here's an odd fact. The voice of the D-Day Landings was the guardian of Wally Hope. Hope, also known as Phillip Russell, was one of the main organisers of the Stonehenge Free Festival. Not only that but Penny Rimbaud has stated that he was the inspiration behind the anarchist punk band Crass.
Snagge lived until 1996 but whether he was ever in their audience to hear Rimbaud telling the audience to "make your own f-ing minds up" is, sadly, not in any historical document. But there must be an R4 play in it.
The answer to your question is the second paragraph for 30 June. And good luck with it. It's great reading.
Thanks Horse. I've edited it. Lucky my Dad isn't around to see that. The worst word I ever heard him use was Bugger.
Just posted today's entry. War is declared at 11.15 but life goes on as normal.
John Snagge, Alvar Lidell and Frank Phillips were "the voices" of the BBC during that period.
Tuesday 26th September 1939
"At night Uncle Dick came to our place and played 7 games of crib with Dad against Mum and me (we won 4-3). Later Auntie Nora and Sheila came to our place. Wireless (It's That Man again, 30 mins, very good).
WEATHER
A lovely day again.
WAR BULLETIN
Mr Churchill said "Quarter of 'U boat' fleet has been destroyed, sinking of ships has decreased by by 65,000, 1st week to 9,000 tons last six days. French denied they had bombed 'Zepp works' say it is believed that a serious accident occurred there."
ITMA was on!
Any sign of that unfunny German chap round here? 
Quote: Chappers @ 26th September 2014, 11:14 PM BSTTuesday 26th September 1939
"At night Uncle Dick came to our place and played 7 games of crib with Dad against Mum and me (we won 4-3). Later Auntie Nora and Sheila came to our place. Wireless (It's That Man again, 30 mins, very good).
WEATHER
A lovely day again.WAR BULLETIN
Mr Churchill said "Quarter of 'U boat' fleet has been destroyed, sinking of ships has decreased by by 65,000, 1st week to 9,000 tons last six days. French denied they had bombed 'Zepp works' say it is believed that a serious accident occurred there."ITMA was on!
Nyah, got a couple of recordings of ITMA - it doesn't travel well.
Loving the images your diary quotes are making for an old fart like me though.
Apart from there being the war on, such simple family pleasures. 
Interesting today. (well sort of...)
Friday 8th December 1939
"At night played crib with Mum and Dad and heard Wireless (Beyond Compere with Ronald Frankau, 45 mins, rotten).
WEATHER
Poured with rain all day.
WAR BULLETIN
H.M.S.'Jersey', a British destroyer, was torpedoed and damaged by a submarine which was sunk. 2 others were sunk by R.A.F. planes. Nazi mine-sowing air-planes were off the Thames Estuary. Fighters went up but Nazis flew off without doing any damage. The King visited B.E.F. again, there was a little local activity on the Western Front. Finnish airplanes carried out a leaflet raid on Leningrad, saying not to believe Molotov."
Ronal Frankau was the grandfather of Nicholas who was one of the airmen in 'Allo, 'allo.
2 days to Christmas. Be fascinating to see what my Dad got. I'm not peaking.
cool