Random radio jottings

Aside from the news bulletins you can pretty much escape the General Election ballyhoo on BBC Radio 3. But that wasn’t always the case. On...

There are, by my reckoning, eight BBC radio programmes that started in the 1940s that are still on air (see note 1). The second oldest of th...

  Whether you’re starting the morning all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed or nursing a Hogmanay hangover there’s no finer way to usher in the N...

On Monday the BBC celebrates 100 years since its first radio broadcast on 14 November 1922. Making the opening announcement on station 2LO...

This weekend we're mourning the death of Sean Connery. Of course the plaudits and obits have all focused on his career defining 007 role...

If I were asked to list my favourite radio comedies that list would include the largely-forgotten, and not heard since 1981, Radio 3 series ...

From today's perspective the furore over Broadcasting in the Seventies seems like a storm in a teacup. But at the time it threaten...

Radio 3 was just coming to the end of a two-month celebration of 70 years since the launch of its predecessor the Third Programme when ...

Radio 3 enjoyed a classical music monopoly for the first quarter of a century of its existence until the arrival of Classic FM in 1992. ...

When the Third Network - the umbrella title for the Music Programme, the Third Programme, the Sports Service and the Study Session - beca...