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Published 27 August 2023
Stickers to put on your radio, plus a guide to tuning in the new BBC Radio 5
Published 14 July 2023
BBC radio stations are moving. Here’s how to find them
Published 6 June 2023
With the coming of BBC Radio 5, UK listeners are encouraged to tune into the World Service for the first time
Published 26 December 2022
A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022
Published 22 September 2022
The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?
Published 26 August 2022
A BBC that does popular and minority programmes, or, as commercial competitors want, a BBC that only does minority interest shows?
Published 12 August 2022
In the Public Interest 1/6: Charles Curran on the BBC’s costs
Published 24 May 2022
Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK
Published 22 November 2021
It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation
Published 28 April 2017
Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the establishment of the BBC Monitoring Service during World War II
Published 25 April 2017
The Radio Times in 1969 speaks to ‘It’s Saturday’ presenter Bill Grundy
Published 28 October 2015
A look at what was on the BBC on Saturday 28 October 1967
Published 17 November 2014
The Guardian in 1992 reports on a new BBC 24-hour news radio station
Published 14 November 2011
BLOG: The BBC’s Delivering Quality First initiative has certainly caused a few headlines for its treatment of local radio, however much less discussed has been its impact on the BBC’s regional TV output. However its changes there have been no less controversial.
Published 12 October 2010
Here’s a story and a half. Back in 2006 Mark Damazer, then controller of BBC Radio 4, axed the piece of music that had heralded the start of the broadcasting…