1 9 4 9 – 1 9 6 2 (USA) No fewer than six actors played the character of Johnny Dollar – the private eye…
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1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 6 (USA) Sharp-tongued satirists Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding had such an excellent on-air rapport as staff announcers…
1 9 4 1 – 1 9 6 4 (UK) This BBC radio music, comedy and variety programme was originally transmitted in May 1941. Intended as…
1 9 5 9 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) This long-running BBC radio sitcom was set aboard a (fictional) Royal Navy frigate named HMS Troutbridge. …
1 9 2 4 – Current (UK) “Rockall, Malin, Hebrides. Southwest gale 8 to storm 10, veering west, severe gale 9 to violent storm 11. Rain,…
1 9 5 5 – Current (UK) This long-running 60-minute BBC Radio programme was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4 October 1955…
1 9 4 2 – Current (UK) The long-running BBC radio series Desert Island Discs was first broadcast on the Forces Programme on 29 January 1942.…
1 9 4 0 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) This daytime radio programme featuring live popular music was broadcast by the BBC twice daily on…
1 9 4 6 – 1 9 6 7 (UK) Debuting on 4 March 1946, this BBC Radio record request programme was broadcast six mornings a…
1 9 4 5 – 1 9 8 0 (UK) “The time in Britain is twelve noon, in Germany, it’s one o’clock, but home and away,…
1 9 5 1 – Current (UK) 20,000+ x 15 minute/12 minute episodes Set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 16 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 6 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 7 (UK) 21 x 30…
Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow) One of the kings of the East Coast, Brooklyn-born Brucie held down the primetime slot at WABC in NYC. He was adept…
In our fast-paced modern world, it’s important to have an escape to the gentler, more carefree world of our childhood and youth. Often, all it…
A one-time bank clerk, Wogan joined the BBC in the 1960s and was one of Radio 1’s original team of presenters in 1967. His Radio…
Radio 1, the BBC’s pop music station, began broadcasting on 31 August 1967, with Tony Blackburn spinning Flowers In The Rain by The Move. The…
The 1960s pirate radio phenomenon was founded on a simple loophole and a cunning understanding of maritime law. If a ship was moored three or…
John Peel (born John Ravenscroft in 1939) cut his teeth as a DJ in the USA, working on stations in Dallas, Oklahoma and San Bernadino,…
Radio Luxembourg began broadcasting in 1933 and was the earliest commercial radio station that could be heard in the UK, thanks to its transmission on…
In November 1964 a 780-ton former WWII minesweeper named MV Galaxy anchored three-and-a-half miles off the Essex coast and became home to Radio London – “Big…
