The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when...

National Programme broadcast significantly more speech and classical music than its successor, the BBC Light Programme. Similarly, the Regional Programme broadcast...

National Programme broadcast significantly more speech and classical music than its successor, the BBC Light Programme. Similarly, the Regional Programme broadcast...

The BBC Forces Programme was a national radio station which operated from 7 January 1940 until 26 February 1944. Upon the outbreak of World War II on 1...

BBC's third national radio network, the other two being the Home Service (mainly speech-based) and the Light Programme, principally devoted to light entertainment...

Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the...

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...

references both electric light and "light orchestral music", a popular style featured in places such as the BBC Light Programme between the 1940s and 1960s...

Top Gear began life in 1964 on the BBC Light Programme and was revived with a progressive rock focus in 1967 on BBC Radio 1, running with that format until...

outbreak of World War II, the BBC developed two nationwide radio stations – the National Programme and the Regional Programme (which began broadcasting on...

the opera. Light music was especially popular during the formative years of radio broadcasting, with stations such as the BBC Light Programme (1945–1967)...

Hill, BBC Home Service (1956) as Mr. Trimble Life with the Lyons, "Dial Special Branch", BBC Light Programme (1958) I Only Arsked, BBC Light Programme (1958)...

of 20 million viewers. The original radio version started on the BBC Light Programme, where it ran from 18 February to 29 September 1949, but moved to...

long-running BBC Radio programme; it was based originally on the Top 20 from the UK Singles Chart and was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4 October...

However, the BBC's network production units located in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Glasgow also make radio programmes. The BBC's radio services...

to be owned by Lt. Cdr. Stanton. The programme was transmitted on the BBC Light Programme and subsequently BBC Radio 2. It was produced by Alastair Scott...

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...

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...

eventually broadcast four times a day on the BBC World Service with a daily broadcast on the BBC Light Programme (as part of The News and Radio Newsreel)...

1953 to 2023 on the BBC Light Programme and its successor BBC Radio 2, moving to BBC Radio 3 from April 2024. The programme is the world's longest-running...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1950. 6 June – the BBC Light Programme first broadcasts Educating Archie, featuring ventriloquist Peter...

Originally broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on Saturday mornings from 9.10 to 9.55 (later, 9.00–10.00), and later BBC Radio 1, and BBC Radio 2, its precursor...

was the first significant BBC radio serial drama. It was first broadcast on 5 January 1948 on the BBC Light Programme, later BBC Radio 2; it ran until 25...

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...

Housewives' Choice was a BBC Radio record request programme, broadcast every weekday morning between 1946 and 1967 on the BBC Light Programme. It played a wide...

sometimes humorously spelt – "TIFE") is a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. It was written by Frank Muir and Denis...

the BBC Light Programme (BBC Radio 2 from October 1967), although the discussion still came from venues in the West of England and the programme continued...

Live at the BBC or BBC Recordings are pop and rock music recordings originally made for or by the BBC Light Programme or BBC Radio 1. Many recordings were...

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...

the BBC Light Programme, later BBC Radio 2 from 1945 until 1980. From 1967 to 1972 it was also carried on BBC Radio 1. It was a request programme designed...