1940 in British radio information

This is a list of events from British radio in 1940. 7 January – The BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom; it becomes the most...

The year 1940 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. 5 January: FM radio is demonstrated for the Federal Communications Commission...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1950. 6 June – the BBC Light Programme first broadcasts Educating Archie, featuring ventriloquist Peter...

In May 1940, during the Second World War, the British war cabinet was split over whether to discuss peace terms with Germany or to continue fighting....

This is a list of events from British radio in 1960. 13 July – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting is established to consider the future of broadcasting...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1942. 29 January – The BBC Forces Programme transmits the first edition of Desert Island Discs, devised...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1951. 1 January – The Archers production series debuts on the BBC Light Programme; it will still be broadcast...

British radio in 1947. 2 January – Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch, having started out as a recurring sketch in...

events from British radio in 1945. No events. No events. No events. 15 April – BBC correspondent Richard Dimbleby accompanies the British 11th Armoured...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1941. 14 January – In a BBC radio broadcast from London, Victor de Laveleye asks all Belgians to use the...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1943. 6 January – BBC reporter Richard Dimbleby makes a live recording from a Royal Air Force nighttime...

external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages...

Mary Winifred Gloria Hunniford, OBE (born 10 April 1940) is a British television and radio presenter, broadcaster and singer from Portadown, Northern...

This is a list of British television related events from 1940. There are no events for 1940 in British television as broadcasting has been suspended for...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1961. 5 June – Hans Keller broadcasts a performance of the spoof avant-garde composition Mobile for Tape...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1948. 3 January – Sports Report, the world's longest-running sports radio programme, debuts on the BBC Light...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1963. 6 January – Alan Freeman takes over as presenter of Pick of the Pops; he remains with the programme...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1944. No events. 27 February – BBC General Forces Programme replaces the Forces Programme to provide entertainment...

a list of events from British radio in 1938. 3 January – The BBC Empire Service, begun in 1932, transmits its first programme in a foreign language: Arabic...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1954. 25 January – First broadcast of Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood, two months after its author's...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1966. 20 January – Radio Caroline ship MV Mi Amigo loses its anchor in a storm, drifts and runs aground...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1958. 29 March – The first averaged BBC Top 20 chart is broadcast on Pick of the Pops. 1 April – BBC Radiophonic...

of events from British radio in 1946. 3 January – American-born Nazi propagandist William Joyce is hanged at HM Prison Wandsworth in London for high...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1953. 6 January – The Broadcasting Council for Wales meets for the first time. 2 June – The Coronation of...

is a list of events in British radio during 1968. 4 February – BBC Radio Nottingham broadcasts the UK's first ever radio phone-in, What Are They Up To...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1955. 17 April – Opening of Hancock's Half Hour 2nd series on BBC radio. Shortly before it is due to be...

of events from British radio in 1964. 5 January – Alan Freeman returns as host of Pick of the Pops. 26 January – York Hospital Radio goes on air with...

of events in British radio during 1982. 2 January – Sue Townsend's comic character Adrian Mole is introduced to a national audience in a radio play, The...

is a list of events in British radio during 1983. 4 January – BBC Radio 2 revives Music While You Work. 17 January – BBC Local Radio comes to south west...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1965. 27 January – Paul Simon broadcasts on BBC radio for the first time, on the Five to Ten show, discussing...