Articles about BBC Third Programme

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

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

A BBC that does popular and minority programmes, or, as commercial competitors want, a BBC that only does minority interest shows?

  I HAVE been asked to set down some thoughts on conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and I am happy and willing to do so since it allows listeners to…

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

Part Seven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

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

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

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