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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
In the 1960s, Chalmers presented two major BBC radio programmes: Family Favourites and Woman's Hour. [10] [11] She also appeared as the original Susan in The Clitheroe Kid, and was a foil for Ken Dodd in his radio show. [12] [13] Chalmers presented ballroom dancing competition programme Come Dancing for the BBC from 1961 to 1965. [14]
1998 in British radio – An overhaul of the BBC Radio 2 schedule sees several new presenters join the network; John Dunn retires as presenter of Radio 2's Drivetime programme and is succeeded by Johnnie Walker; first broadcast of PopMaster, Kevin Greening leaves The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, leaving Zoe Ball to present the show by herself ...
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.
At the time of the radio show the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) had three big-band music shows on weekday lunchtimes: Make Way for Music featuring the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra (originally conducted by Alyn Ainsworth and later by Bernard Herrmann); Parade of the Pops featuring Bob Miller and the Millermen; and Go Man Go featuring David Ede and the Rabin Band.
Sounds of the 60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. It was first broadcast on 12 February 1983 and introduced by Keith Fordyce, who had been the first presenter of the TV show Ready Steady Go! in 1963.
On 18 July 2010, after 64 years of Woman's Hour, the BBC began broadcasting a full series called Men's Hour on BBC Radio 5 Live, presented by Tim Samuels. [9] In 2006, Woman's Hour had 2.7 million listeners. [10] For one week in April 2014, the programme was guest edited by J. K. Rowling, Kelly Holmes, Naomi Alderman, Doreen Lawrence and Lauren ...
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 ...