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Some floors, including this one, contained no studios and acted as extra sound insulation
between studios on other floors.
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Broadcasting House was to have its most dramatic evening on 15th October 1940.
It was in the Music Library on the fifth floor that a German 500lb delayed action bomb came
to rest having entered the building on the seventh floor. When it exploded, five floors of
the tower were badly damaged. Most of the third floor studios were wrecked, 3A collapsed
under the weight of the floors above and the chapel, 3E, was wrecked. Urgent structural repairs
were required to prevent the collapse of the tower. Seven members of staff lost their lives
that night. Less than two months later a land-mine landed in Portland Place, the explosion
blew out most of the windows on that side of the building and some of the wiring and equipment
was damaged.
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