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The Lakes is a British television drama series, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern, first broadcast on BBC1 on 14 September 1997. [1] The series, which was principally filmed in and around Patterdale and The Ullswater Hotel, Glenridding, [2] stars John Simm as Danny Kavanagh, a hotel porter, compulsive gambler, and philanderer who escapes from the dole queues in Liverpool to ...
McMillan was the host of BBC Radio 4's literary quiz Booked!, broadcast between 1995 and 2000. McMillan hosts the weekly show The Verb and Proms variation Adverb on BBC Radio 3, "dedicated to investigating spoken words around the globe". [9] He has been described in the BBC's publication Radio Times as the "22nd Most Powerful Person in Radio".
The success of Radio 4 News FM during the first Gulf War (1991) led the BBC to propose the launch of a rolling-news service. Initially the plan was to broadcast a rolling news service on BBC Radio 4's long wave frequency; but this met with considerable opposition, both internally and externally, [6] so the BBC decided to close BBC Radio 5 and replace the old service's educational and children ...
BBC Radio 5 may refer to: BBC Radio 5 (former), a BBC Radio network from 1990 to 1994; BBC Radio 5 Live, a BBC Radio network since 1994;
While BBC Radio London, albeit with some further minor interruptions, continues to take the show, the rest of the network switches to BBC Radio 5 Live. [4] 4 January Ian Shepherd joins Central Radio to present weekend breakfast. [5] Former Key 103 presenter Jonathan Miles joins Happy Radio UK to present a weekly show on Saturday evenings. [6]
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BBC Radio Cumbria is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Cumbria. It broadcasts on FM , AM , DAB , digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios in Carlisle . According to RAJAR , the station has a weekly audience of 85,000 listeners and a 8.4% share as of December 2023.
Radio 5 Live, along with other BBC radio stations, stop broadcasting via Sky's analogue satellite service. 2002. 2 February – BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra launches. 6 April – The Weekend News is first broadcast. Initially presented by Matthew Bannister and Caroline Feraday, the new programme replaces Global.