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No ads please – we’re British
Published 30 November 2003
Advertising guru Charles Higham warns against commercial radio… in 1933
Out of the Light 1
Published 29 November 2003
The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy
Out of the Light 2
Published 28 November 2003
Radio Two tries to find an identity after two decades under the shadow of its younger sibling
The compleat Burkiss Way
Published 15 August 2001
An episode guide to a most underrated radio comedy
A chronology of RadioActive!
Published 15 August 2001
A chronology of one of the most popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series of the eighties.
A new lease of life
Published 15 August 2001
The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.
The quality and the width
Published 15 August 2001
What’s more important – more services or better sound?
Forces of Light
Published 15 August 2001
How the Light Programme was shaped by the wartime Forces and General Forces programmes