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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    Mishal Husain (category BBC newsreaders and journalists)
    best known for having presented a range of BBC News programmes, most notably BBC Radio 4's Today programme. She has occasionally appeared as a relief...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • programming is simulcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. Andy Collins (weekday breakfast) Jonathan Vernon-Smith (weekday consumer programme) Babs Michel (weekend early...
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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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    major role in the last series of Navy Mixture, broadcast for the BBC General Forces Programme in 1947, in which she starred with Jimmy Edwards. Guest appearances...
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    Retrieved 3 June 2022. "General Dynamics Land Systems–UK completes first AJAX programme manned live firing trial". General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited...
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