BBC Light Programme
The Light Programme was a BBC radio station broadcasting mainstream light entertainment and music. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the longwave frequency -- which until 1939 had been used by the BBC National Programme -- of the wartime General Forces Programme, and closed at 02:02 on 30 September 1967. At 05:30 on the same day it was replaced by Radio 1 on its mediumwave frequencies, and by Radio 2 (the renamed Light Programme) on its longwave frequency. The FM frequencies were mainly used by Radio 2 but sometimes leased to Radio 1 until that station acquired its own FM frequencies in the late 1980s. The long-running "soap opera" The Archers was first heard nationally on the Light Programme, on 1 January 1951, although it had been broadcast in the Midland regional service of the BBC Home Service in 1950.
Some of its announcersRoy WilliamsFranklin EngelmannRobert DougallPeter FettesDennis DrowerJohn WebsterJean MetcalfeMichael BrookeMarjorie AndersonDave DunhillPhillip Slessor
Some of its most remembered programmesThe Al Read ShowThe ArchersBeyond Our KenBilly Cotton BandshowChildren's FavouritesThe Clitheroe KidDick BartonDoes the Team ThinkEducating ArchieFamily FavouritesFriday Night is Music NightThe Goon Show (repeats from BBC Home Service)Hancock's Half HourHave a GoHousewive?s ChoiceIgnorance is BlissITMAJourney Into SpaceLife With The LyonsListen with MotherThe Man in BlackMeet the HuggettsMerry-Go-RoundMrs Dale's DiaryMuch Binding in the MarshMusic While You WorkThe Navy LarkOrbiter XPC 49Ray's a LaughRiders of the RangeTake It From HereVariety BandboxWaterlogged SpaWoman's HourWorker's Playtime
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