From Britain, With Love It was the year 1922. John Reith, a 33-year-old Scottish engineer, was just appointed as the first general manager of the BBC.

Reith's 18 months in the US gave him experience of becoming a public figure. He met leading financiers and industrialists, including John D Rockefeller Jnr.

John Reith, the BBC’s founder, once succinctly declared the broadcaster’s purpose as one to “educate, inform, and entertain.” However, as Robert Philpot astutely observes in a recent op-ed ...

Reith's 18 months in the US gave him experience of becoming a public figure. He met leading financiers and industrialists, including John D Rockefeller Jnr.

Reith wanted her as his secretary in the Admiralty, but there was a problem. She was serving in the women's branch of the Army, the ATS, not the Navy and the Army didn't want to release her.

John Reith (1889-1971) was the founder of the BBC. He was its first general manager when it was set up as the British Broadcasting Company in 1922 and he was its first director general when it ...

To find its first general manager, British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. inserted a want ad in a technical paper. That was in 1922 and John Charles Walsham Reith answered the ad, got the job. Since then ...

John Reith the puritanical founder of the BBC. Now Greg Dyke, his successor as DG, is to reveal his obsession with a gorgeous girl (and, yes, the programme is on the BBC).

Sir John Reith figured the twice-floundered Corsair still worth a muckle. He sent a fellow Scot, braw George Halliday, Imperial Airways sectional engineer, out from Cairo.