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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 ...
BBC Radio 3 1 August 1967 BBC Third Programme • 1946–1967: Classical, jazz and world music, culture and drama — 90.2–92.6 12B 703 0103 903
Radio 3 is the successor station to the Third Programme which began broadcasting on 29 September 1946. [8] The name Radio 3 was adopted on 30 September 1967 when the BBC launched its first pop music station, Radio 1 [9]: 247 and rebranded its national radio channels as Radio 1, Radio 2 (formerly the Light Programme), Radio 3, and Radio 4 (formerly the Home Service).
1990. 24 September – Radio 3's Night School opens. It airs repeats of the schools programmes broadcast the previous morning on BBC Radio 5.This allows schools to record an FM-quality transmission of the programmes which, following their transfer from Radio 4 to Radio 5, results in the morning broadcast now being heard on the inferior MW waveband.
BBC Asian Network confirms some schedule changes as it prepares to move operations to Birmingham, with Bobby Friction moving from weekdays to weekends, and Amber Sandhu heaving the station. [40] Wise Buddah Productions produce a new jingles package for BBC Radio 2, including for The Scott Mills Breakfast Show featuring the House Gospel Choir. [41]
24 June – BBC Radio Leeds launches. 3 July – BBC Radio Durham launches. 1969. 10 July – The BBC publishes a report called "Broadcasting in the Seventies" proposing replacing regional broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 with BBC Local Radio. BBC Local Radio is made permanent after the two-year experiment is judged to have been a success.
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".
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.