This is a list of events from British radio in 1942.
Events
January
29 January – The BBC Forces Programme transmits the first edition of Desert Island Discs, devised and presented by Roy Plomley. Austrian-born revue artist (and son-in-law to the Prime Minister) Vic Oliver is the first castaway.[1] The series will still be running (on BBC Radio 4) more than 75 years later.
6 May – The Radio Doctor (Charles Hill) makes his first BBC radio broadcast giving avuncular health care advice to British civilians within the Kitchen Front programme; his broadcasts continue to 1950.
29 June – Shostakovich’s LeningradSymphony No. 7, the score of which has been smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm, receives its first performance in Western Europe at The Proms, as an act of defiance following Germany's invasion of Russia.