Articles about BBC Light Programme

How the new VHF-FM broadcasting system will benefit you – and how to tune in

At two o’clock, five days a week, the BBC takes Britain’s housewives out of their kitchens

Is the BBC fit for the hard work of covering the Coronation? And does it cost too much?

A leaflet celebrating 40 years of our BBC

The BBC Light Programme’s daily soap opera

A look behind the scenes of the Light Programme’s major news bulletin

Part one of a series on how time is measured and broadcast by the BBC

After 10 years, the BBC’s radio networks have started to drift. Here’s how they’re going to be put back on track

Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB

A souvenir of your visit to the Ideal Home Show in March 1965

Souvenir leaflet for a comedy panel game at the Dome in Brighton in 1961

Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers

It’s Number One, it’s Top Of The Pops!

It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…

BBCtv is dying in 1958 and here’s how to save it

There’s a thrilling end to a football match, so here’s the Show Band Show instead

Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio

On this day in 1946, BBC radio began serialising one of the most devastating essays ever written

A look at what was on BBC radio on Friday 31 July 1964

Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951

The 1950 BBC Handbook celebrates the big hit for the Light Programme in 1949: Take It From Here by Denis Norden and Frank Muir

Norman Collins is disappointed with the government’s White Paper on Broadcasting Policy in 1967

Music Through Midnight with David Hamilton sees the BBC Light Programme off into history

The BBC reviews the first two years of the Light Programme

Frank Gillard in 1964 on the launch of the BBC Music Programme and the realignment of the BBC’s three radio networks

BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer

The coming of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4

Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945

1960s: At the top of his game.

More than a legendary broadcasting figure, Alan Freeman was a 1960s icon.

Kif Bowden-Smith continues his personal memoir of Alan Freeman.

The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy

The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.

How the Light Programme was shaped by the wartime Forces and General Forces programmes