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This is a list of events from British radio in 1960. Events ... Billy Cotton Band Show (1949–1968 ... singer and musician, presenter on BBC Radio 2 (1998–2000) 13 May
Petticoat Line was an all-woman panel show on the BBC Home Service (from 1967 this became BBC Radio 4) chaired by Anona Winn which discussed listeners' letters and problems. [1] It started on 6 January 1965 [2] and ran for 11 years. [3] It was devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter.
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For this, BBC Radio 1 uses BBC Radio 2's VHF/FM frequencies on weeknights again (having previously done so from October 1971 to December 1974, for shows hosted by Peel, Annie Nightingale and Bob Harris among others). This one-hour show on weeknights is the only time of the evening that BBC Radio 1 broadcasts its own programmes and the station ...
1999 in British radio – Launch of the Digital One multiplex; Britain's first £1m prize is given away on a segment of Chris Evans's Virgin breakfast show; Steve Wright in the Afternoon returns on BBC Radio 2 six years after programme's final broadcast on BBC Radio 1; Birmingham station BRMB stages the controversial Two Strangers and a Wedding ...
Mrs Dale's Diary was the first significant BBC radio serial drama. It was first broadcast on 5 January 1948 on the BBC Light Programme , later BBC Radio 2 ; it ran until 25 April 1969. A new episode was broadcast each weekday afternoon, with a repeat the following morning.
In Town Tonight is a BBC radio programme that was broadcast on Saturday evening from 1933 to 1960 (except for a period of 26 weeks in 1937 when The BBC presents the ABC was broadcast instead). It was an early example of a chat show, originally presented by Eric Maschwitz. Its theme music was "Knightsbridge March" by Eric Coates.
The week's Radio 1 schedules occupied a single page, followed by Radio 2 (with a facing pair of pages), then several pages of Radio 3 (five pages) and Radio 4 (six pages), and finally the BBC Local Radio listings; regional features, which had absent from the English editions since the late 1960s, resumed with a localised page. Later on 25 ...