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Published 27 August 2023
Stickers to put on your radio, plus a guide to tuning in the new BBC Radio 5
Published 14 July 2023
BBC radio stations are moving. Here’s how to find them
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 chairman of the BBC looks back at 60 years of broadcasting
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 12 August 2022
In the Public Interest 1/6: Charles Curran on the BBC’s costs
Published 24 May 2022
Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK
Published 22 November 2021
It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation
Published 29 September 2017
Music Through Midnight with David Hamilton sees the BBC Light Programme off into history
Published 31 March 2017
Listen to Radio 1 and Radio 2’s introductory programme from the evening of 30 September 1967
Published 17 February 2017
From the late 1970s, BBC Radio 1’s ‘Mailbag’ interviews producer Johnny Beerling about the station’s use of jingles.
Published 28 October 2015
A look at what was on the BBC on Saturday 28 October 1967
Published 3 September 2015
Probably the greatest maker of radio Britain ever created… especially when the devil got into him
Published 16 January 2011
Radio 1’s oldest listener looks back on a life tuning in to the wireless.
Published 24 June 2010
Whilst waiting to discover its eventual fate, the BBC Trust has to at least appear ‘useful’ as a regulator of the BBC, therefore it’s no surprise to learn that the…
Published 12 April 2010
If BBC management weren’t planning to close any radio stations, the repositioning of 1Xtra as a closer relation to Radio 1 would make sense from a marketing perspective because at…
Published 23 March 2009
Chris Moyles reprimanded over ‘gay’ spoof lyrics to Will Young song The BBC has a problem. Indeed it has several problems, but a recurring theme in recent years seems to…
Published 6 December 2008
BBC Trust: Survey of BBC services aimed at 13-34 year-olds If you have a spare moment or two today, the BBC Trust are actively seeking views from members of the…
Published 29 October 2008
There’s no Christmas without TOTP Put away the tinsel and pack away the tree; Christmas 2008 has just been cancelled. And it’s not because the TV shopping channels insisted on…
Published 22 May 2008
BBC should privatise Radios 1 and 2, says Richard Eyre Ex-commercial radio man wants BBC Radios 1 and 2 to be privatised, which is a rather strange assertion to make…
Published 23 April 2008
Privatise Channel 4, says Big Brother mogul Want a lively debate combined with a whole host of potential contradictions? Then hire Peter Bazalgette as a guest speaker as what happened…
Published 1 December 2003
A revolution at BBC Radio One throws out the old and rings in the new – in public and painfully
Published 29 November 2003
The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy
Published 15 August 2001
What’s more important – more services or better sound?