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Alan Dell
Alan Dell, born Alan Creighton Mandell (20 March 1924 – 18 August 1995), was a BBC radio broadcaster, associated with dance band music of the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s.
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Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was an Australian-born British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years, best known for presenting Pick of the Pops from 1961 to 2000.
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Appointment with Fear (radio)
Appointment with Fear was a horror drama series originally broadcast on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s, and revived on a number of occasions since.
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Barry Alldis
Barry Alldis (1930–82) was an Australian presenter on British radio, most notably on the English service of Radio Luxembourg.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Forces Programme
The BBC Forces Programme was a BBC radio station which operated from 7 January 1940 until 26 February 1944.
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BBC General Forces Programme
The BBC General Forces Programme was a BBC radio station from 27 February 1944 until 31 December 1946.
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BBC Home Service
The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it became the current BBC Radio 4.
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BBC National Programme
The BBC National Programme was a UK radio broadcasting service which was on the air from 9 March 1930 – when it replaced the earlier BBC radio station 5XX – until 1 September 1939, when it was subsumed into the BBC Home Service, two days before the outbreak of World War II.
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BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.
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BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 and 90.2MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are relayed on digital radio via DAB, Sky, Cable TV, IPTV, Freeview, Freesat and the Internet.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.
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BBC Third Programme
The BBC Third Programme was a national radio service produced and broadcast by the BBC between 1946 and 1970.
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Beyond Our Ken
Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964) is a radio comedy programme, the predecessor to Round the Horne (1965–1968).
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Billy Cotton Band Show
The Billy Cotton Band Show was a Sunday lunchtime radio programme broadcast in the BBC Light Programme from 1949 until 1968.
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Brian Matthew
Brian Matthew (17 September 1928 – 8 April 2017) was an English broadcaster who worked for the BBC for 63 years from 1954 until 2017.
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Children's Favourites
Children's Favourites was a BBC Radio programme broadcast from 1954 until 1984 and Christmas editions from 2007 until 2015.
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David Jacobs (broadcaster)
David Lewis Jacobs, CBE (19 May 1926 – 2 September 2013) was a British broadcaster perhaps best known as presenter of the BBC Television 1960s peak-time show Juke Box Jury, and as chairman of the long-running BBC Radio 4 topical forum Any Questions? Earlier radio work included small acting parts: over the years he played himself or presenter characters in film, television and radio productions.
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David Symonds
David Symonds (born 28 June 1943) is an English Radio DJ.
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Desmond Carrington
Desmond Herbert Carrington (23 May 1926 – 1 February 2017) was a British actor and broadcaster, best known for his weekly evening show, The Music Goes Round, on BBC Radio 2.
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Dick Barton
Dick Barton – Special Agent was a popular radio thriller serial broadcast in the BBC Light Programme between 7 October 1946 and 30 March 1951.
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Does the Team Think?
Does The Team Think? was a radio panel game broadcast originally on the BBC Light Programme (later BBC Radio 2) from 1957 to 1976, and revived, again on Radio 2, with a new cast, in 2007.
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Don Durbridge
Don Durbridge (13 January 1939 – 9 June 2012) was a UK radio presenter who started his career on the BBC Light Programme, and subsequently worked on the British Forces Broadcasting Service, and on BBC Radio 2,.
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Douglas Smith (broadcaster)
Douglas Smith (11 February 1924 - 15 October 1972) began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service (now the World Service) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme.
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Droitwich Transmitting Station
The Droitwich transmitting station is a large broadcasting facility for long-wave and medium-wave transmissions, established in 1934 in the civil parish of Dodderhill, just outside the village of Wychbold, near Droitwich in Worcestershire, England.
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Educating Archie
Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show broadcast from June 1950 to February 1958 on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews.
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Family Favourites
Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (remembered by its later name Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2 and the British Forces Broadcasting Service until 1980.
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Franklin Engelmann
Henry Franklin Engelmann (4 March 1908 – 2 March 1972) was a radio personality popular in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly as the host of Down Your Way and Gardeners' Question Time.
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Frequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.
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Friday Night Is Music Night
Friday Night is Music Night is a long-running live BBC radio concert programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, broadcast most Fridays on BBC Radio 2 at 8pm.
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Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
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Housewives' Choice
Housewives' Choice was a BBC radio record request programme broadcast every morning from 1946 to 1967 on the BBC Light Programme.
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I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (often abbreviated as ISIRTA) is a BBC radio comedy programme that originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus.
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It's That Man Again
It's That Man Again (or, commonly, ITMA) was a BBC radio comedy programme which ran from 1939 to 1949.
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Jean Metcalfe
Jean Metcalfe (2 March 1923, Reigate, Surrey – 28 January 2000, Petersfield, Hampshire) was an English radio broadcaster.
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John Churchill Dunn
John Churchill Dunn (4 March 1934 – 27 November 2004), professionally known simply as "John Dunn", was a disc jockey and radio presenter who worked for many years on BBC Radio.
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Journey into Space
Journey Into Space is a BBC Radio science fiction programme written by BBC producer Charles Chilton.
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Ken Sykora
Ken Sykora (13 April 1923–7 March 2006), born Charles Kenneth Sykora was an English jazz guitarist and radio presenter.
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Life with the Lyons
Life with the Lyons was a British radio and television domestic sitcom from the 1950s (1950–1961 on radio, 1955–1960 on television).
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Light entertainment
Light entertainment is the broad range of television and radio programming.
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Light music
Light music is a generic term applied to "light" orchestral music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues until the present day.
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Listen with Mother
Listen with Mother was a BBC radio programme for children which ran between 16 January 1950 and 1 October 1982.
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Longwave
In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band.
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Marjorie Anderson
Marjorie Anderson (7 November 1913 – 14 December 1999) was a leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty years.
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Medium wave
Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting.
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Mrs Dale's Diary
Mrs Dale's Diary was the first significant BBC radio serial drama.
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Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh
Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1954, firstly by BBC radio and subsequently Radio Luxembourg. It starred Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch as senior staff in a fictional RAF station battling red tape and wartime inconvenience.
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Music While You Work
Music While You Work was a daytime radio programme of continuous live popular music broadcast in the United Kingdom twice daily on workdays from 23 June 1940 until 29 September 1967 by the BBC, initially in the Forces / General Forces Programme, and after the war in the BBC Light Programme and, in the mornings, on the BBC Home Service.
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Orbiter X
Orbiter X is a BBC Radio science fiction programme written by B. D. Chapman.
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Paul Hollingdale
Paul Hollingdale (born Paul Wynn; 30 March 1938 – 5 July 2017) was a British radio presenter who presented the first programme broadcast on BBC Radio 2, Breakfast Special, from 5.30am on Saturday 30 September 1967.
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Pete Murray (DJ)
Peter Murray, OBE (born 19 September 1925) is a British radio and television presenter and a stage and screen actor.
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Peter Fettes
Peter Fettes was a BBC Radio presenter, active in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Peter Haigh
Peter Varley Haigh (28 July 1925 – 18 January 2001) was an English in-vision announcer for BBC Television in the years after the Second World War.
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Pick of the Pops
Pick of the Pops is a BBC Radio programme, originally based on the Top 20 UK Singles Chart and first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1955.
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Radio Newsreel
Radio Newsreel was a news programme produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation between 1940 and 1988.
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Robert Dougall
Robert Dougall, MBE (27 November 1913 – 19 December 1999) was an English broadcaster and ornithologist, mainly known as a newsreader and announcer.
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Round the Horne
Round the Horne is a BBC Radio comedy programme that was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968.
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Roy Williams (broadcaster)
Roy Williams was a BBC Radio continuity announcer active in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Sam Costa
Samuel Gabriel 'Sam' Costa (17 June 1910 – 23 September 1981) was a popular singer of the British dance band era and a voice actor on the show ''Much Binding in the Marsh''.
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Sing Something Simple
Sing Something Simple was a half-hour radio programme, which featured Cliff Adams and The Cliff Adams Singers, with Jack Emblow on accordion.
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Sports Report
Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio, and is the world's longest-running sports radio programme.
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Take It From Here
Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced — and sometimes humorously spelt — "TIFE") is a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960.
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Ted Ray (comedian)
Ted Ray (born Charles Olden; 21 November 1905 – 8 November 1977) was an English comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, on radio and television.
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The Archers
The Archers is the world's longest-running radio soap opera.
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The Clitheroe Kid
The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comedian Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his family at 33 Lilac Avenue in an unnamed town in the North of England.
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The Goon Show
The Goon Show was a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme.
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The Midlands
The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.
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The Navy Lark
The Navy Lark is a radio sit-com about life aboard a British Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge, (a play on HMS ''Troubridge'', a Royal Navy destroyer) based in HMNB Portsmouth.
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Tim Brinton
Timothy Denis Brinton (24 December 1929 – 24 March 2009), sometimes referred to as Tim Brinton, was a British broadcaster and Conservative Party politician.
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Tim Gudgin
Tim Gudgin (25 November 1929 – 8 November 2017) was a British radio presenter and voiceover artist.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Variety Bandbox
Variety Bandbox was a British radio variety show transmitted by BBC Radio on the Light Programme.
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Welsh Rarebit (radio programme)
Welsh Rarebit was a British radio variety show broadcast from Cardiff by the BBC between February 1940 and December 1952.
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Woman's Hour
Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.
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Workers' Playtime (radio programme)
Workers' Playtime was a British radio variety programme transmitted by the BBC between 1941 and 1964.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Light_Programme
