The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 1. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the long wave frequency which had earlier been used – prior to the outbreak of the Second World War on 1 September 1939 – by the National Programme.
Anthony Kenneth Blackburn is an English disc jockey, singer and TV presenter. He first achieved fame broadcasting on the pirate stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s, before joining the BBC, on the BBC Light Programme. He was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 at its launch, on 30 September 1967, and has had several stints working for the corporation. He has also worked for Capital London and Classic Gold Digital, and currently BBC Radio 2, BBC Local Radio, and British Forces Broadcasting Service. He has also had a singing career.
The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1968.
The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1976.
Michael Terence Aspel is an English retired television newsreader and host of programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel & Company, Give Us a Clue, This is Your Life, Strange but True? and Antiques Roadshow.
Come Dancing was a British ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off on the BBC from 1949 to 1998. Unlike its follow-up show, Strictly Come Dancing, contestants were not celebrities.
Judith Rosemary Locke Chalmers is a British television presenter who is best known for presenting the travel programme Wish You Were Here...? from 1974 to 2003.
Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns sung in churches of varying denominations from around the UK.
Juke Box Jury was a music panel show which ran on BBC Television between 1 June 1959 and 27 December 1967. The programme was based on the American show Jukebox Jury, itself an offshoot of a long-running radio series. The American series, which was televised, aired from 1953 to 1959 and was hosted by Peter Potter, Suzanne Alexander, Jean Moorhead, and Lisa Davis.
Jean Metcalfe was an English radio broadcaster.
Arthur Clifford Michelmore was an English television presenter and producer.
"With a Song in My Heart" is a show tune from the 1929 Rodgers and Hart musical Spring Is Here.
The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show starring Benny Hill that aired on the BBC and ITV between 15 January 1955 and 1 May 1989. The show consisted mainly of sketches typified by slapstick, mime, parody, and double entendre.
Guy Michelmore is an English film and television composer and former television news presenter.
Wheelbase was a BBC television series about cars, that was broadcast on BBC2 between 1964 and 1975.
Margaret Elinor Hubble was a British radio broadcaster. She was best known as a presenter of Woman's Hour in the 1950s.
24 Hours or Twenty-Four Hours is a long-running, late evening, daily news magazine programme that aired on BBC1. It focused on analysis and criticism of current affairs and featured in-depth short documentary films that set the style for current affairs magazine programmes. 24 Hours launched on 4 October 1965 and focused on investigative journalism. The programme's main presenter was Cliff Michelmore.
Sing Something Simple was a half-hour radio programme, which featured Cliff Adams and The Cliff Adams Singers, with Jack Emblow on accordion. The programme ran for 42 years from 1959 until 2001, initially on the BBC Light Programme and later on BBC Radio 2, and earning itself the title of the longest-running continuous music programme in the world.
Sandra Locke "Sandy" Chalmers was a British radio producer and broadcaster, who was editor of Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 in the 1980s.
