1717: Producing a Radio 1 breakfast show - BBC Radio Scotland

A BBC Radio Scotland educational broadcast for primary school children - on producing the Radio 1 breakfast show in the days of Simon Mayo. 

1716: Ken's last appearance on Radio 2 - 2023

1715: 1215 Closedown

1714: Michael Aspel and Graham Dene on Aspel's 48th birthday

1713: The announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II on UK radio

The announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II on a selection of national UK radio stations.  With Twitter beating them all in timeliness, by its...

1712: Final Scott Mills & Chris Stark 2022

1711: Steve Wright announces his departure from daytime Radio 2 - 2022

1710: Farewell, Tony Lyman - 2021

Tony Lyman began his radio career in hospital radio at Radio Nene Valley – whilst working as a postie - before making his radio debut on board the Voi...

1709: Mental Health Minute 2021

1708: UK radio announces the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh - 2021

This montage illustrates how UK radio broke into regular programming on the event of the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday 10th...

1707: Simon Mayo first on Greatest Hits Drive - 2021

In the most expected move in UK radio, Simon  Mayo transfers from Scala weekdays to Greatest Hits Radio. He calls upon the decent 'new term' analogy -...

1706: Boom Radio launch - 2021

1705: Simon Mayo announces move

When Simon arrived at Bauer-owned Scala Radio, a few of us stroked our chins and thought he'd turn up on Greatest Hits Radio before too long. On the 1...

1704: Final Jane Garvey Woman's Hour on Radio 4 - 2020

How many true radio greats are on air in a generation? A dozen? Jane Garvey is high on my version of that list.  And if the list is a chart, she's sti...

1703: Radio 4 news - change and style as heard on The World at One - 2020

1702: Pick of the Pops into Radio 2 continuity! - 1969

What a wonderful culture clash - with Alan Freeman at his peak hosting Pick of the Pops and hitting a Radio 2 junction.

1701: Final Jenni Murray Woman's Hour - 2020

1700: Capital Dance launch - 2020

1699: Keith Skues final BBC show - 2020

27th September 2020 saw Keith Skues hit the stab on Mr Tambourine Man for the final time, as his 500th show marked the end of his broadcasting career...

1698: Cousin Brucie returns to WABC - 2020

The style and voice of characters like Cousin Brucie dominated AM radio in the 50s and 60s in the US - whilst life in UK radio was altogether more sed...

1697: Bauer station 'closedowns' - August 2020

2020 and another slew of stations reach the end of the road, as national radio brands become bigger. This time, Bauer incorporate more of their new ac...

1696: The BBC Radio 5 story

On 27 August 1990 the BBC launched its fifth national radio station – Radio 5 - the first network addition since 1967, using the frequencies 693 and 9...

1695: Dotty's last breakfast on BBC 1Xtra - 2020

Dotty's last breakfast show on 1Xtra on 30th July 2020

1694: First Kiss breakfast with Jordan and Perri - 2020

The new breakfast show on Kiss launched on 3rd August 2020 with Jordan and Perri.

1693: Ken Bruce on Katy Perry - 2020

1692: Norman Smith leaves the BBC - 2020

On 30th July 2020, Norman Smith announced his farewell from the BBC.



He joined the BBC as a local radio reporter in 1986, b...

1691: The Bruno Radio 1 chart where Number Two came after Number One - 1986

If you’ve ever hosted a chart, you’ll know that precision counts.  Every word. Every second. You have little space to adlib around errors inconspicuou...

1690: Times Radio launch mention on Radio 4 - 2020

1689: Times Radio launch - 2020

Times Radio launched on 29th June 2020.



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1688: Times Radio, test broadcast - 2020

1687: First American Top 40 with Casey Kasem - 1970

Making its debut on Independence Day weekend in 1970 on just 7 stations, the American Top 40 would grow to be heard around the World on more than a th...

1686: De Gaulle broadcasts from BH in 1945 - Stourton report on Radio 4

As the French government prepared to sign an armistice with the Nazis, President Charles De Gaulle turned up at BH on 18th June 1940 to broadcast to F...

1685: Final Pete Price appearance on Citytalk -2020

1684: Tony Blackburn Top 40 issue - 1980

Things  go wrong in radio.  It happens to all of us. It's worse when they go wrong at the beginning of your show, as it then puts you in the wrong moo...

1683: Mental Health Minute, Commercial and BBC radio - 2020

I cannot think of any other time when so many commercial and BBC stations have united to broadcast a single co-ordinated message.


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1682: Christian O'Connell, final link on Absolute Radio - 2018

Five months after announcing he was to leave, Christian O'Connell left Absolute Radio on May 18th 2018.



He had hosted the b...

1681: VE Day 75th anniversary, Greatest Hits Radio - 2020

1680: Pete Mitchell tribute, Virgin Radio - 2020

Pete Mitchell died on March the 12th 2020, aged  61.



He'd been on-air for 34 years, and was well-known as one half of Pete...

1679: 'Let my people go' COVID as heard on 77 WABC New York - 2020

Talk radio American style  on COVID 19.  Government is shutting down - and Mark Levin is not happy. 'Let my people go'. Truly shocking radio.

1678: 50th Anniversary of PM and The World Tonight - 2020