Random radio jottings

Question: What's the name of the first Radio 2 pop quiz presented by Ken Bruce? If you answered Pop Master then you could be said to be...

Fifty years ago this month, on Friday 29 September 1967, the BBC Light Programme closed down, in name if not entirely in spirit, to be re...

"If you're slaving all at home or relaxing or you're working in a noisy factory, just set yourself free when the clock str...

The summer of 1976 and Britain was baking hot. So hot that a Nationwide reporter was attempting to fry an egg on the pavement, probabl...

Local TV services have met with, it’s fair to say, mixed fortunes. The service in Birmingham, for instance, had an abortive start when City ...

Set the controls for the 18th of February 1985. Imagine being able to fashion a radio time-travelling device that can receive your fa...

Inspired by Radio 2's 2DAY  event on the 22nd of this month - which promises a taste of the full schedule over a 12 hour period - her...

Radio Times 5 December 1977 More David Hamilton, this time from the 1980s. By November 1977 David’s afternoon show was now on R...

Some of my early radio memories are: Listen With Mother - presumably during the school holidays Saturday morning Junior Choice – ...