Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is immediately recognisable to British people of a certain age as it has been used as a visual symbol for the Coroporation in a large amount of TV programming.

It is such a unique art deco building that it can be enjoyed for it’s architectural significance even without the broadcasting history it is steeped in. It is shaped like an old steam liner, and even to this day staff members refer to the front of the building as 'the prow’. The building was opened in 1932 and is now a Grade II listed building. George Val Myer was the architect and Raymond Grath designed the stylised interior including the vaudeville studio, the Green room and dressing rooms and the dance and chamber music studios.

The statues at the front of the building are of Prospero, a magician, and Ariel, a spirit. Both are from Shakespeare' s The Tempest. Controversy emerged from suggestions that they had been sculpted to look like God and man, and that there is a small carved picture of a beautiful girl on the back part of Prospero's statue. There are further carvings on the building depicting Ariel, seen as the spirit of the air in which radio waves travel.

The building stands right above the Underground Bakerloo Line, and there is a rumour of a secret platform beneath the building.

On the roof of Broadcasting House is a memorial to journalists killed in the line of duty. It is called 'Breathing' and the 10 metre high glass column is illuminated every night at 10pm. It was unveiled in 2008 by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon.

Broadcasting House currently accommodates Radio 3, 4 and 7 as well as the BBC Radio Theatre. It is undergoing extensive renovations. A nasty 60s extension will be knocked down and is being rebuilt in a more sympathetic style in order to create a campus for BBC News and the BBC World Service. It is due for completion in 2011.