The BBC Forces Programme was a national radio station which operated from 7 January 1940 until 26 February 1944, when it was replaced by the BBC General...
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The BBC General Forces Programme was a national radio station operating from 27 February 1944 until 31 December 1946. Upon the outbreak of World War II...
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1939 – by the BBC National Programme. The service was intended as a domestic replacement for the wartime BBC General Forces Programme which had gained...
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The BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme was a national radio station during World War II in the mid-1940s. Upon the outbreak of World War II on...
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The BBC Third Programme was a national radio station produced and broadcast from 1946 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 3. It first went on...
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The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for His Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide...
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The BBC National Programme was a radio service which was on the air from 9 March 1930 – replacing the earlier BBC's experimental station 5XX – until 1...
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1945, the BBC resumed its previous regional structure. Following the wartime success of the BBC Forces Programme and BBC General Forces Programme, light...
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15-minute programme by the BBC World Service presented by Aminu Abdullahi Malumfashi: a translated version was later read by Abubakar Tunau in the programme West...
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cent listenership, which was high for a late-night broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme. That October Melody Maker arranged a jam session at His Master's...
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formerly employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio. The BBC has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide...
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BBC Breakfast is a British television breakfast news programme, produced by BBC News and broadcast on BBC One every morning from 6:00am. It is also broadcast...
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list of television programmes broadcast by the BBC either currently or previously broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom. Programmes in this section...
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colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme. Broadcast on Monday to Saturday...
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Desert Island Discs (category BBC Light Programme programmes)
Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942. Each week a guest...
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Billed as "a programme of variety and topicalities", it began life as a monthly 30-minute feature in the BBC's wartime Forces Programme, and was designed...
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BBC London is the BBC's regional television news programme for Greater London and its surrounding areas of the Home Counties. The bulletin is broadcast...
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September 1967, replacing the BBC Light Programme, with some of the Light Programme's music shows transferring to the newly launched BBC Radio 1. The first show...
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The BBC Regional Programme was a radio service which was on the air from 9 March 1930 – replacing a number of earlier BBC local stations between 1922...
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the BBC Forces Programme. 1943 23 November – British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation. 1944 27 February – BBC General Forces Programme replaces...
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a week (via TV, radio and online). BBC World Service English maintains eight regional feeds with several programme variations, covering, respectively...
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broadcast simultaneously on both the BBC Home Service and Forces Programme, then from 1957 onwards solely on the Light Programme. For all its 23 years each show...
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Commission in the United States for the first time. 7 January: The BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom; it becomes the most popular...
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Dave Pearce (who later went to BBC Radio 1) made his first regular appearances as a BBC DJ on a Monday night programme.[citation needed] Radio London...
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wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including flagship news programme Today and radio drama The Archers, from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting...
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or from digital satellite. Since 1975, the BBC has also provided its TV programmes to the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS), allowing members...
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British Broadcasting Company (category BBC)
Marconi Company. The BBC as a commercial broadcasting company did not sell air time but it did carry a number of sponsored programmes paid for by British...
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Family Favourites (category BBC Light Programme programmes)
successor to the wartime radio show Forces Favourites, broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme, later BBC Radio 2 from 1945 until 1980. From...
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1940 in British radio (section Programme endings)
is a list of events from British radio in 1940. 7 January – The BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom; it becomes the most popular...
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Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh (category BBC Light Programme programmes)
civilian population, the BBC had to provide entertainment for the armed forces. From early 1940 the BBC's General Forces Programme broadcast Merry-go-Round...
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