This is a list of events from British radio in 1944.
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April
- April – The American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) is established, transmitting from Britain in English, German, French, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian to resistance movements in mainland Europe.
June
- 5 June – One day before D-Day, the BBC transmits coded messages (including the second line of a poem by Paul Verlaine and Hubert Gregg's "I'm Going to Get Lit Up When the Lights Go Up in London")[2] from Britain to underground resistance fighters in France warning that the invasion of mainland Europe is about to begin.[3][4]
- 6 June – D-Day: The 08:00 BBC news bulletin announces that paratroops have landed in France (reporter Guy Byam is among them).[5] 17 BBC reporters are embedded with the invasion forces.[5] At 09:32 John Snagge begins reading announcements of the landings "on the northern coast of France", broadcasting over BBC transmitters to home and overseas audiences[6] and introducing a message from General Eisenhower.[5] At 13:00, the first eyewitness report, recorded on a bomber, is broadcast.[6] The King speaks to the nation at 21:00.[6] Reports of the landings are carried by around 725 of the 914 broadcasting stations in the United States.[4]
August
- 28 August – The BBC begins broadcasting in Dutch to Indonesia and in French to southeast Asia.[8]
- 2 February – Andrew Davis, orchestral conductor (died 2024)
- 9 May – Tony Prince, "The Royal Ruler", born Thomas Whitehead, DJ
- 12 May – Brian Kay, bass singer and radio music presenter
- 5 June – Nigel Rees, radio broadcaster
- 28 October – Gerry Anderson, Northern Irish radio broadcaster (died 2014)
- November – Jim Eldridge, scriptwriter
- 25 December – Kenny Everett, born Maurice Cole, DJ (died 1995)
- 22 June – Kent Stevenson, war reporter (shot down while flying on an air raid)
- 19 August – Sir Henry Wood, orchestral conductor (born 1869)
Seatter, Robert (2022). "1944". Broadcasting Britain: 100 years of the BBC. London: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 9780241567548. Hendy, David (2022). "D-Day". BBC 100. BBC. Retrieved 29 April 2022. "Jubilee Prom". The Yorkshire Post. Leeds. 28 July 1944. from the rural B.B.C. studio to which the concerts have been transferred.
"Stanley Maxted: Former Singer Covered Plight Of Red Devils". The Globe. Toronto. 11 May 1963. p. 2.
Waller, Maureen (2020) [2004]. London 1945: life in the debris of war. [London]: John Murray. pp. 18–49. ISBN 978-1-529-33815-7.