Musications

From the vaults: Ulster Television starts the day one morning in 1978

You know him from Trumpton and Camberwick Green. We know him from his 8 daily start-up pieces for BBC-1 (two on Sundays) in use 1964-7. Have a listen to them on our SoundCloud channel

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On retransmission stations of the internet, this is the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System

On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV

Music Through Midnight with David Hamilton sees the BBC Light Programme off into history

The final closedown, 29 September 1967

Radio Caroline chooses not to sink in the face of the Marine Offences Act

Wonderful Radio London – Big L – decides to call it a day

The last moments of off-shore station Radio 355

A demo package of jingles for Radio Forth, NorthSound and Moray Firth Radio from 1981

New local radio station CBC in Cardiff prepares to come on air in 1980

A documentary from 13 October 1982 discusses how S4C came to be

Ray Moore opens and closes the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest for BBC Radio 2

Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the establishment of the BBC Monitoring Service during World War II

Ludovic Kennedy on the botched launched of BBC-2

Jingles are not just for radio, as Tuesday Productions show in this 1980s sampler

41 years ago, Beacon Radio 303 comes on air for the first time

Ocean Sound looks back on the news from 1986

Listen to Radio 1 and Radio 2’s introductory programme from the evening of 30 September 1967

In 1981 this spin-off from Tomorrow’s World tries to divine which 12″ videodisc will win the battle

Bob Godfrey’s 1963 surreal mix of advertising tropes

John Walters goes to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1986

BBC Newsnight on the Peacock Report in 1986, which recommends ITV franchises go to the highest bidder and BBC Radios 1 and 2 are sold

Larry Grayson interviews Noele Gordon on ATV in 1972

From the late 1970s, BBC Radio 1’s ‘Mailbag’ interviews producer Johnny Beerling about the station’s use of jingles.

Audio of David Frost introducing the new London Weekend before Trevor Lucas takes ATV London off air for the final ever time

A promo for Thames on Rediffusion

An off-air audio recording of the first half hour of Thames’s first proper programme.

In 1971, the government prepares to announce commercial radio. BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’ programme examines what system they might choose in this audio recording

The BBC’s “24 Hours” looks at the troubled life of LWT in an audio recording from 1971.

The handover from the Alpha Studios in Aston to the new Paradise Centre in Birmingham in 1969