More like Jesus while watching TV?

Depending on when you read this, you may be planning on watching or have recently watched the King’s Christmas Broadcast on TV.

Or perhaps enjoyed some of the celebratory programming around the centenary of the BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation – even if celebrities doing the tango to the Casualty theme tune on Strictly might have seemed a rather peculiar way of marking the occasion.

However, you may never have considered the origins of that word ‘broadcast’. With a son studying agriculture, I had a vague awareness of terms such as ‘broadcast seed drills’ but had never connected the two words until I heard a Radio 4 programme about the history of the BBC.