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2022 in British radio – Permanent small-scale DAB multiplexes begin to go on air; The first full-time radio simulcast of a TV station begins when GB News Radio is launched on Digital One; Plans are announced to close BBC Radio 4's long wave service, BBC Radio 5 Live's medium wave frequency and BBC Radio 4 Extra as a cost-saving measure; The ...
Radio News Hub launches a worldwide hourly news service, delivering news to radio stations in their native languages. [ 32 ] Greatest Hits Radio Scotland 's breakfast show, Ewen and Cat at Breakfast , is given a breach from Ofcom over a live interview with comedian Ford Kiernan on 10 September 2024 in which he used offensive words.
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7 March – Debut of the BBC Radio comedy sketch show Round the Horne hosted by Kenneth Horne.The fourth programme (28 March) introduces the camp pair Julian and Sandy (played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams), who will go on to introduce the gay and theatrical cant Polari to a regular audience which builds to 15 million.
Live country music [6] Choral Evensong: 98 BBC: 7 October 1926 Longest running live outside broadcast programme in radio history. Generally comprising Anglican evensong, occasionally Roman Catholic vespers. Initially broadcast on BBC Home Service, later branded BBC Radio 4, until 8 April 1970 when the programme moved to BBC Radio 3. The Daily ...
Your Hundred Best Tunes was a BBC radio music programme, always broadcast on Sunday evenings, which presented popular works which were mostly classical excerpts, choral works, opera and ballads. The hundred tunes which made up the playlist were initially selected by the creator and presenter, Alan Keith. Subsequently, tunes were suggested by ...
2 June – Secretary of State for War Anthony Eden gives a radio address claiming success of the Dunkirk evacuation. [6] [7]5 June – Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio Postscript, "An excursion to hell", on the BBC Home Service, marking the role of the pleasure steamers in the Dunkirk evacuation, just completed.
John Peel's after-midnight show on pirate station Radio London becomes The Perfumed Garden and, contrary to the station's daytime "Fab 40" playlist, he introduces his eclectic mix of folk, blues, psychedelic and progressive rock which continues until the station is forced off the air in August and Peel moves to BBC Radio 1.