Radio

Frank Gillard in 1964 on the launch of the BBC Music Programme and the realignment of the BBC’s three radio networks

Radio Guide in May 1976 takes a look at late night ILR phone-ins

Part four of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

BBC announcer John Snagge tries to define what makes a BBC announcer

What the BBC meant to the people of occupied France

Novelist L.A.G. Strong explains why regional broadcasting is so important in 1945

A new BBC transmitter is being built near Slaithwaite in 1931

Ted Kavanagh explains where wartime hit ‘ITMA’ came from

The BBC Handbook for 1968 explains how BBC local radio is spreading

Holocaust Memorial Day: the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby describes entering the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945

The BBC decides to reveal all when war breaks out

Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio – two ‘forgotten’ pop pirates.

Probably the greatest maker of radio Britain ever created… especially when the devil got into him

A beginner’s guide to broadcasting history

Liverpool’s Radio City celebrates being #1 in 1982

A look back at the first wave of ILR stations and where they are now

Welcome to Radio Merseyside

The Guardian in 1992 reports on a new BBC 24-hour news radio station

Radio 1 swings on to the air

Radio speaks peace until war comes

March 1950, and it’s time to retune your radio

Nigel Stapley twirls the FM dial in the days when that meant silence or hiss

Radio 1’s oldest listener looks back on a life tuning in to the wireless.

A past more interesting than the present

The story of London’s clandestine radio stations (1973)

Nigel Stapley remembers

Survey slaves are killing radio’s originality

What is really going on?

Welsh poetry on the air

Is DAB on the way out?

A life in student radio

Why can’t I listen to MyClassicFM?

The story of the Volksempfänger

BBC Listen Again goes upmarket – briefly

The birth of Radios 1-4

The coming of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4

Robin Carmody looks back on his Moment

Roddy Buxton remembers

Recalling Radio 1

Mike Brown’s memories

Jonathan Bufton takes stock

More than Sunday Lunch

A love/hate relationship

Radio 4: a personal history

Radio One at 40