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BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was the original name for Radio 4 and was on the air from 1939 until 30 September 1967. Unlike Radio 4, it had regional variations and was broadcast on medium wave rather than long wave, with a network of FM (then known as VHF) transmitters being added progresively from 1955.

Some of its announcers

  • Lionel Marson
  • Ronald Fletcher
  • Wallace Greenslade
  • Stuart Hibberd
  • Frank Phillips
  • Joy Worth
  • Colin Doran
  • Kenneth Kendall
  • Harry Middleton

    Some of its most remembered programmes

  • The Archers (1966-67)
  • The Brains Trust
  • The Goon Show
  • In Town Tonight

    See also: BBC World Service


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