Articles about BBC Radio

The BBC’s most popular comedy show, around the world as well as at home, requires a team of writers

A dryly humorous recollection of starting the BBC’s Manchester radio station in the 1920s

It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation

Unusual audience research as the BBC goes direct to the forces in France to ask them what they’d like to hear on the radio

Everything changes as the BBC switches from wartime to peacetime service on the radio

Independent local radio is on its way, says ATV’s Norman Collins… in 1959

Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951

It’s 1949 and regional radio from the BBC Home Service is at its height. Our new special site reprints a BBC West of England booklet going behind the scenes of radio in the west and south west

The 1950 BBC Handbook celebrates the big hit for the Light Programme in 1949: Take It From Here by Denis Norden and Frank Muir

Ice hockey on the radio propels Stewart MacPherson from the press office at the Wembley Pool into a career with the BBC

The BBC’s chief engineer in 1923 takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at the trials and tribulations of developing simultaneous broadcasting (networking as we would now call it)

What the BBC meant to the people of occupied France

Ted Kavanagh explains where wartime hit ‘ITMA’ came from

A look at what was on the BBC’s radio networks on Monday 7 February 1938

The BBC decides to reveal all when war breaks out

Welsh poetry on the air

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

Kirk Northrop surprises himself

Growing up with Radios 1 & 2

Anatomy of a popular radio series

Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945

On and off with BBC LR

The recent history of Radio 2, and its change from “Radio Grim Reaper” to being the most popular station on the dial.

Another revolution at Radio One

A revolution at BBC Radio One throws out the old and rings in the new – in public and painfully

Advertising guru Charles Higham warns against commercial radio… in 1933

The changeover between the Light Programme and Radios 1 and 2 wasn’t easy

Radio Two tries to find an identity after two decades under the shadow of its younger sibling

A prehistory of British broadcasting

Personal memories of the start of Radios 1 and 2

A comedy series… that started on BBC Radio 3 of all places

An episode guide to a most underrated radio comedy

A chronology of one of the most popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series of the eighties.

What’s more important – more services or better sound?