1961 in British radio
Events
- 30 June – The popular radio comedy programme Hancock's Half Hour is aired for the last time.
- Unknown – David Davis is appointed head of children's sound broadcasting at the BBC.
- Unknown – Chorus singer Irene Thomas enters and wins the Brain of Britain contest, heralding a forty-year period as a mainstay of radio panel game quiz programmes.
Continuing programmes
1940s
- Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
- Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
- Down Your Way (1946–1992)
- Letter from America (1946–2004)
- Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
- A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)
1950s
- The Archers (1950–Present)
- The Today Programme (1957–Present)
- The Navy Lark (1959–1977)
- Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)
1960s
- Farming Today (1960–Present)
- Easy Beat (1960–1967)
Station debuts
Births
- 1 January – Fiona Phillips, radio and television presenter
- 3 March – Paul Baskerville, disc jockey
- 12 May – Charlie Neil, disc jockey and ITV weather presenter
- 28 June – Mark Goodier, disc jockey
- 17 July – Jeremy Hardy, comedian (died 2019)
- 22 July – Carolyn Quinn, journalist and presenter on PM.
- 25 October – Pat Sharp, radio and television presenter
- Unknown
- Robin Brooks, radio dramatist
- Corrie Corfield, newsreader
- Graham Torrington, disc jockey
Deaths
- 21 April – Wallace Greenslade, announcer (born 1912)
- 22 October – L. Stanton Jefferies, musician and radio producer (born 1896)
See also
References
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