1969 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1969.
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Events
January
- No events
February
- No events
March
- No events
April
- 25 April – The last edition of daily soap opera The Dales is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 after 5,531 episodes.
- 28 April – The first edition of daily soap opera Waggoners' Walk is broadcast on BBC Radio 2, replacing The Dales.[1]
May
- No events
June
- 11 June – The Organist Entertains, presented by Robin Richmond, is broadcast for the first time.
July
- 10 July – The BBC publishes a report called "Broadcasting in the Seventies" proposing the reorganisation of programmes on the national networks and replacing regional broadcasting on BBC Radio 4 with BBC Local Radio. The report begins to be implemented the following year and the former BBC Home Service regions gradually disappear although regional programming on Radio 4 does not end fully until the end of 1982.
- 20–21 July – BBC Radios 1 and 2 stay on air all night to provide live coverage of the landing on the Moon and of Neil Armstrong's first steps onto the Moon's surface.[2]
August
- No events
September
- No events
October
- 5 October – Annie Nightingale makes her debut on BBC Radio 1 and is the station's first female presenter.
November
- No events
December
- No events
Station debuts
Programme debuts
- 28 April – Waggoners' Walk on BBC Radio 2 (1969–1980)
- 11 June – The Organist Entertains on BBC Radio 2 (1969–2018) [3]
- Unknown – The Big Business Lark on BBC Radio 4 (1969)
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)
- The Men from the Ministry (1962–1977)
- I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (1964–1973)
- Petticoat Line (1965–1979)
- The World at One (1965–Present)
- The Official Chart (1967–Present)
- Just a Minute (1967–Present)
- The Living World (1968–Present)
Births
- February – Fi Glover, radio presenter
- 11 April – Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer and broadcaster
- 7 June – Adam Buxton, actor and comedian
- 22 August – Kathy Clugston, Northern Ireland-born newsreader
Deaths
- 14 February – Kenneth Horne, radio comedian (born 1907)
- 25 March – Billy Cotton, bandleader (born 1899)
- 27 October – Eric Maschwitz, broadcasting executive, scriptwriter and lyricist (born 1901)
See also
References
- BBC Genome Project – Radio 2 listings 28 April 1969
- - BBC Genome Project - Radio 1 listings 20 July 1969
- "BBC Genome Project". The Organist Entertains. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
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