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...

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

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

Tributes following the death last month of actor Andrew Sachs understandably lauded his masterful comic portrayal of the dim-witted Manue...

The BBC Third Programme offered listeners a rich diet of drama, classical music, concerts and talks but there was little in the way of a ...

The introduction of the BBC's Third Programme in 1946 can be seen as part of a movement in post-war British society to expand the ran...

The Third Programme "will devote to the great works the time they require. It will seek every evening to do something that is cult...

“Standby for switching. Get tuned to Radio 1 or 2. 5, 4, 3, Radio 2, Radio 1, go!” Surely one of the most played pieces of radio archive: ...