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 Forces...
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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 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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Radio Newsreel (category BBC Light Programme programmes)
the head of the BBC General Forces Programme and the BBC Light Programme. It was originally broadcast on the Overseas Service of the BBC, and also broadcast...
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Regional Programme London (1939) An excerpt from the Eric Maschwitz revue New Faces, BBC General Forces Programme (1940) The Dragon's Dinner, BBC Home Service...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Jean Metcalfe (category BBC radio presenters)
Empire Service programme Books and People. Metcalfe was auditioned as an announcer for the new BBC General Forces Programme, a joint BBC–War Office venture...
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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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Music While You Work (category BBC Light Programme programmes)
afternoon edition at 3pm on the Forces/General Forces Programme - and after the war on the BBC Light Programme. Between August 1942 and July 1945, a third...
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Variety Bandbox (category BBC Light Programme programmes)
Variety Bandbox is a BBC Radio variety show transmitted initially in the General Forces Programme and then the Light Programme. Featuring a mixture of...
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David Jacobs (broadcaster) (category BBC Radio 2 presenters)
performed on the popular BBC General Forces Programme Navy Mixture in 1944. He became an announcer with the British Forces Broadcasting Service and was...
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British Broadcasting Company (category BBC)
receive programmes. The ability of the shareholders to profit from the BBC was limited as part of the agreement with the Postmaster General: The holders...
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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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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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Programming in Japanese begins. 1944 27 February – BBC General Forces Programme replaces the BBC Forces Programme (also broadcast on shortwave). 26 June – Icelandic...
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The Navy Lark and as the Third Doctor in Doctor Who. BBC General Forces Programme BBC Light Programme "Programming • WPAQ 740". WPAQ 740. Retrieved 15 June...
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is the first general news bulletin, copyright by Reuters, Press Association, Exchange Telegraph and Central News. — BBC news programme opening during...
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BBC Three Counties Radio is the BBC's local radio station serving the counties of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It broadcasts on FM...
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Traditional Gaelic music and general chat every weekday from BBC studio in Inverness. Caithream Ciùil – Daily afternoon programme featuring Celtic music and...
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and television. He played his first role on radio in the 1938 BBC tea dance programme Friends to Tea, before spending the Second World War with the Royal...
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