From our archive

► 20 Years Ago Today, 33 years ago today

20 April 2017

Ludovic Kennedy on the botched launched of BBC-2

► Tuesday Productions sampler

14 April 2017

Jingles are not just for radio, as Tuesday Productions show in this 1980s sampler

► Beacon Radio launch

12 April 2017

41 years ago, Beacon Radio 303 comes on air for the first time

► Ocean Sound This Year

7 April 2017

Ocean Sound looks back on the news from 1986

► Spotlight 1 and 2

31 March 2017

Listen to Radio 1 and Radio 2’s introductory programme from the evening of 30 September 1967

► The Risk Business: videodiscs

24 March 2017

In 1981 this spin-off from Tomorrow’s World tries to divine which 12″ videodisc will win the battle

► The Plain Man’s Guide to Advertising

17 March 2017

Bob Godfrey’s 1963 surreal mix of advertising tropes

► Television comes to Bradford

10 March 2017

John Walters goes to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1986

► The Peacock Committee reports back

3 March 2017

BBC Newsnight on the Peacock Report in 1986, which recommends ITV franchises go to the highest bidder and BBC Radios 1 and 2 are sold

► Shut That Door!

24 February 2017

Larry Grayson interviews Noele Gordon on ATV in 1972

► Beerling on jingles

17 February 2017

From the late 1970s, BBC Radio 1’s ‘Mailbag’ interviews producer Johnny Beerling about the station’s use of jingles.

► Exit ATV, pursued by LWT

1 December 2016

Audio of David Frost introducing the new London Weekend before Trevor Lucas takes ATV London off air for the final ever time

► This summer on Thames!

3 November 2016

A promo for Thames on Rediffusion

► Lunch on Thames

5 September 2016

An off-air audio recording of the first half hour of Thames’s first proper programme.

► The shape of radio

15 August 2016

In 1971, the government prepares to announce commercial radio. BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’ programme examines what system they might choose in this audio recording

► The fall and fall of LWT

4 August 2016

The BBC’s “24 Hours” looks at the troubled life of LWT in an audio recording from 1971.

Welcome home to TVTimes

25 October 2015

The TVTimes celebrates the return of ITV after the long 1979 strike

Come to an end

26 July 2015

TWW’s last ever programme – in full

Take that, Thames

24 July 2014

LWT tries to strike back

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