Random radio jottings

After 102 years of broadcasting on the long wave and after forty-eight years of Radio 4’s presence on long wave the service closes on 27 Jun...

In a recent edition of University Challenge (1) Amol Rajan asked “Give me the composer of this piece which became, in 1927, the first music...

On Saturday 28 July 1945 the BBC closed the Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme (AEF) and, at least for domestic listeners, the General Fo...

When Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965 the BBC went into full obit mode, a special Radio Times supplement printed and plans made to ...

  Radio broadcasting from Hull is one hundred years old this week. Now that may come as a surprise to listeners of BBC Radio Humberside who ...