Articles about BBC local radio

A letter from the manager of BBC Radio Carlisle in 1973

Part six of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022

The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs

Your guide to BBC Radio Nottingham in 1970

Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan

Closedown BBC local radio to replace it with the new Independent Local Radio? Not on my watch, says the BBC Director-General

A history of BBC Local Radio music logging

BBC Radio Nottingham poster from 1968

The BBC’s local radio services in 1980

BBC Local Radio is coming: what’s in it for you?

The ‘girls’ who keep the BBC’s four northern local radio stations on air in 1968

The Observer notes that training has begun for staff of the new BBC local radio stations in 1967

The Guardian in 1967 on why Manchester won’t be getting a BBC local radio station

The Daily Express is outraged in 1966 when the government announces there will be no colour on BBC-1 and ITV

Celebrate 50 years of BBC Radio Merseyside with a trip back to their launch

The BBC Handbook for 1968 explains how BBC local radio is spreading

BLOG: Danny Baker is lost

BLOG: Preparing to say goodbye to Mark Thompson

BLOG: Local radio is almost saved

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…

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…