BBC Light Programme

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The Light Programme was a BBC radio station broadcasting mainstream light entertainment and music. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the longwave frequency, which until 1939 had been used by the BBC National Programme of the wartime BBC General Forces Programme. It closed at 02:02 on 30 September 1967. At 05:30 on the same day it was replaced by Radio 1 on its mediumwave frequencies, and by Radio 2 (the renamed Light Programme) on its longwave frequency. The FM frequencies were mainly used by Radio 2 but sometimes leased to Radio 1 until that station acquired its own FM frequencies in the late 1980s.

The long-running "soap opera" The Archers was first heard nationally on the Light Programme, on 1 January 1951, although it had previously been broadcast in the Midlands Home Service in 1950.

[edit] Announcers

• Roy Williams
• Franklin Engelmann
• Robert Dougall
• Peter Fettes
• Dennis Drower
• John Webster
• Jean Metcalfe
• Michael Brooke
• Marjorie Anderson
• Dave Dunhill
• Phillip Slessor

[edit] Notable programmes

• The Al Read Show
• The Archers
• Beyond Our Ken
• Billy Cotton Bandshow
• Children's Favourites
• The Clitheroe Kid
• Dick Barton
• Does the Team Think?
• Educating Archie
• Family Favourites
• Friday Night is Music Night
• The Goon Show (repeats from BBC Home Service)
• Hancock's Half Hour
• Have a Go
• Housewives' Choice
• Ignorance is Bliss
• ITMA
• Journey Into Space
• Life With The Lyons
• Listen with Mother
• The Man in Black
• Meet the Huggetts
• Merry-Go-Round
• Mrs Dale's Diary
• Much Binding in the Marsh
• Music While You Work
• The Navy Lark
• Orbiter X
• PC 49
• Ray's a Laugh
• Riders of the Range
• Take It From Here
• Variety Bandbox
• Waterlogged Spa
• Woman's Hour
• Worker's Playtime

[edit] See also

• List of BBC related topics