The BBC’s Lime Grove Studios officially opened on 21 May 1950. The site was bought from Rank Film Studios to fulfil the needs of the fast expanding television service in the 1950s.

Veteran BBC presenter Esther Rantzen fears her lung cancer may have been caused by exposure to asbestos in the studios where she worked for decades. The Times of London reports that the 82-year ...

Lime Grove studios produced a host of memorable shows, including Hancock's Half-Hour, Andy Pandy, Blue Peter, Steptoe & Son, Sooty, Doctor Who, Panorama, Nationwide, Grandstand and Breakfast Time ...

The television studios in Lime Grove. C.L.S. Gilford. 1950 Jan. Report 1950-24 Download Jan 1950 Abstract. An acoustic survey has been made of some of the Lime Grove studios.

“I worked in the BBC’s Lime Grove studios for at least 35 happy years from 1965. Some time in the late-Eighties or early-Nineties, workmen wearing white spacesuits arrived to take down walls ...

EXCLUSIVE: BBC's Lime Grove studios in Shepherd's Bush where Dame Esther Rantzen worked for several decades, is claimed to have been riddled with asbestos. By Ashleigh Rainbird.

I don't know what Lime Grove studios looked like, but I do know the Riverside studios which were also used by the BBC at that time and they look very much like the studios we saw in the serial, ...

Grandstand was first broadcast from the Lime Grove Studios on Saturday 11 October 1958. Peter Dimmock presented the programme, which featured racing from Ascot, golf's world amateur team championship ...

In June 1956, BBC reporters Bel Rowley and Freddie Lyon spot their opportunity to be a part of a brand new current affairs programme at Lime Grove Studios. But as Freddie’s interview looms, a ...

The Grove Family is a British television soap opera, generally regarded as the first of its kind broadcast in the UK, made and transmitted by BBC Television from 1954 to 1957.

The BBC’s Lime Grove studios were never going to be a match for Madison Avenue but television news with its endless deadlines is far more exciting than advertising. If Abi Morgan’s retro-soap can’t be ...