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Published 2 May 2023
A letter from the manager of BBC Radio Carlisle in 1973
Published 30 December 2022
Part six of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Published 26 December 2022
A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022
Published 14 November 2022
The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs
Published 16 September 2022
Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan
Published 19 August 2022
Closedown BBC local radio to replace it with the new Independent Local Radio? Not on my watch, says the BBC Director-General
Published 24 May 2018
The ‘girls’ who keep the BBC’s four northern local radio stations on air in 1968
Published 17 May 2018
The Observer notes that training has begun for staff of the new BBC local radio stations in 1967
Published 8 May 2018
The Guardian in 1967 on why Manchester won’t be getting a BBC local radio station
Published 3 April 2018
The Daily Express is outraged in 1966 when the government announces there will be no colour on BBC-1 and ITV
Published 22 November 2017
Celebrate 50 years of BBC Radio Merseyside with a trip back to their launch
Published 12 September 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1968 explains how BBC local radio is spreading
Published 11 March 2011
It’s hard to know exactly what BBC management are thinking with their latest money-saving proposal to be made public, namely to replace some local radio broadcasts with a simulcast of…
Published 1 December 2007
Of all the broadcasting anniversaries we’ve been noting recently in these pages, there’s one that seems to have slipped by. It might seem a small thing, but it was actually…