When Housewives Had the Choice. This day in 1946 on the BBC Light Programme, the first edition of the daily request show Housewives' Choice. It ran for 21 years but the BBC only kept this minute from 21 April 1965 with Kenneth Horne presenting
When Housewives Had the Choice. This day in 1946 on the BBC Light Programme, the first edition of the daily request show Housewives' Choice . A history of the programme that ran for 21 years in my August 2015 blog post bit.ly/2huOLyk (Radio Times page from 25.6.62)
When Housewives Had the Choice. This day in 1946 on the BBC Light Programme, the first edition of the daily request show Housewives' Choice. It ran for 21 years but the BBC only kept this minute from 21 April 1965 with Kenneth Horne presenting
OTD last year Jen Thomas takes over from Fran Godfrey on Mellow Magic Breakfast. As of last month Claire Sturgess presents the show
OTD last year Clive Myrie is the guest newsreader on BBC Radio 2's Scott Mills Breakfast Show
The Essay on BBC Radio 3 this week sounds like a fascinating listen as Gillian Reynolds talks about You, Me and the Wireless
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OTD last year Cambridge's Star Radio closes and is rebranded as part of Hits Radio
OTD last year Cambridge's Star Radio closes and is rebranded as part of Hits Radio
Scanned page of BBC World Service listings magazine London Calling from March 1985 showing the drama programmes that month. Includes two editions of Bedtime Story by Patricia Mays - Beauty and the Beast and Bluebeard.
BBC Radio 4 Extra is once again dipping into the World Service drama archive with a first time repeat of Bluebeard, a modern retelling of the France folktale by Patricia Mays. It was first broadcast in March 1985
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Today at 5pm on Greatest Hits Radio it's the last America's Greatest Hits show with Paul Gambaccini. Gambo has presented it since it started on Radio 1 in Sept 1975 through to 1986, ILR networked show 1986-89, then Radio 2 1998-2016 and now GHR 2020-26. What's the betting he plays Born to Run?
OTD last year, after nearly 9 years it was the final Mellow Breakfast with Fran Godfrey. Fran is still on Mellow Magic on Sunday afternoons and on Boom Light Mon-Thurs at noon
From 2017, Neil Sedaka in the Radio 2 Piano Room as part of Ken Bruce's morning show youtu.be/u11PY6W_hGk
Today on Greatest Hits Radio it's the last America's Greatest Hits programme. Paul Gambaccini has been presenting it, on and off, for just over half a century. My latest blog post on this radio long-runner bit.ly/4cev8aR
Launching 55 years ago today BBC Radio Humberside. My February 2021 blog post on the first half century bit.ly/3svlnLn
OTD last year Nick Grimshaw takes over the BBC 6 Music breakfast show
OTD last year Rick Jackson, ex-Wave 105/GHR, joins BBC Radio Solent for the afternoon show. Next month Rick moves to the breakfast show
OTD last year Rob Ellis joins Radio X 90s with a mid-morning show
OTD last year Fia Tarrant is the new breakfast show presenter on Heart 00s
OTD last year Rick Jackson, ex-Wave 105/GHR, joins BBC Radio Solent for the afternoon show. Next month Rick moves to the breakfast show
OTD last year Rob Ellis joins Radio X 90s with a mid-morning show
OTD last year Nick Grimshaw takes over the BBC 6 Music breakfast show
OTD last year Fia Tarrant is the new breakfast show presenter on Heart 00s
I've uploaded 9 on YT so far. More to come as I've unearthed another tape but need to check sound quality
If you enjoyed that edition of The Law Game on BBC Radio 4 Extra here's another one from the same series with Brian Johnston, Denise Coffey and Derek Nimmo on the panel youtu.be/1-aLeBGYLAU
If you enjoyed today's repeat of The Law Game on BBC Radio 4/BBC Sounds, here's a little more about the show in my May 2021 blog post (with audio) bit.ly/3HR89SI
Today BBC Radio 4 Extra is broadcasting The Versatile Voice of Kenneth Williams: A Centenary Celebration. Six hours of archive material and newly recorded interviews curated and presented by Wes Butters. Radio Times article by David McGillivray has more
Big and Little, with Kenneth Williams and Roy Kinnear, was broadcast as part of Listening Corner, the successor to Listen with Mother. Heard on VHF/FM only as the Shipping Forecast was on LW. #KennethWilliams100 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Repeated today for #KennethWilliams100 on BBC Radio 4 Extra/BBC Sounds an edition of The Law Game chaired by Shaw Taylor. Diary entry shows he enjoyed the recording and producer Lissa Evans makes quite an impression. 1st tx 5 Jan 1988 on Radio 2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The edition of Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4 Extra today dates from 4 November 1975. It was Kenneth Williams' 165th appearance on the show. Producer is John 'QI' Lloyd. JAM creator Ian Messiter wrote an appreciation of Kenneth for London Calling #KennethWilliams100
In The Streets of London Kenneth Williams shows Percy Edwards & Johnny Morris round his home city. When the BBC turned up at his flat he was 'horrified', as he told The Observer in 1983. The programme was broadcast on Christmas Day 1980 #KennethWilliams100 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
