From our archive

► 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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Liverpool, Friday 1 December 2023