OTD in early British television: 5 May 1938
Daily Telegraph, 6 May 1938, with a picture (and apologies for the quality of the reproduction) taken in the studio during the previous evening’s Picture Page.
Daily Telegraph, 6 May 1938, with a picture (and apologies for the quality of the reproduction) taken in the studio during the previous evening’s Picture Page.
Thomas Borries Ralph Woodrooffe is perhaps even better known for his notorious broadcast a year or so before this on the Coronation Review of the Fleet at Spithead, where after celebrating with some naval chums he gave a commentary that included him proclaiming over and over that ‘the fleet’s lit up’. He was suspended for a week and the BBC apologised with a statement saying that he was ‘tired and emotional’.
For more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Woodrooffe
and
https://thebravestcanadian.com/2011/12/16/hilarious-bbc-broadcast-of-1937-fleet-review-by-inebriated-woodrooffe/
And you can hear the rather wonderful broadcast here:
https://youtu.be/DSn_rAAPwTE?si=DcivNu6VdwquxHFa
Also, it should be noted that the “hat” he appeared to eat on Picture Page was in fact a hat-shaped cake.