Career
Burrows was previously a journalist and also a keen wireless enthusiast. Prior to joining the British Broadcasting Corporation he was in charge of the original experimental transmissions from Marconi House, the first 2LO station. Arthur Burrows was a man of several British broadcasting "firsts":
At 6pm on 14 November 1922, he read the British Broadcasting Corporation"s first-ever, on-air news bulletin.
He was one of the original British Broadcasting Corporation "Uncles" ("Uncle Arthur"), the first London wireless Uncle on Children"s Hour.
Burrows began his career on the Oxford Times newspaper, obtaining the post through the editor Claude Rippon. Burrows knew Rippon through the Oxford Camera Club.
Both were keen photographers.
