Articles about BBC Third Programme

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

On this day in 1946, BBC radio began serialising one of the most devastating essays ever written

A look at what was on BBC radio on Friday 31 July 1964

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

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

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

The coming of Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4

Glenn Aylett looks at sports coverage since 1945

The Second World War had forced a change in priority for the BBC.