Out This Week

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Out This Week is a pioneering LGBT+ weekly news programme that ran on BBC Radio 5Live for five years from 2 April 1994 - 1999, [1] with as one of its founder/presenters Nigel Wrench [2] and also featuring Justine Buchanan, Alison Hennegan [ citation needed ] and latterly Rebecca Sandles. Wrench and producer David Cook won a Sony Radio Award [3] [4] in 1995 for a landmark programme presented live from New York about Stonewall 25. [5] [6] Shortly after the award, the BBC extended their run to a full year. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Lesbian and gay radio launch". The Guardian. 1994-03-15. ISSN   0261-3077. ProQuest   293429388 . Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  2. ↑ "London Bridges". POZ. 1996-08-01. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  3. ↑ "LGBT+ Timeline" . Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  4. ↑ "The ARIAS". Radio Academy. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  5. ↑ https://lavendermagazine.com/our-affairs/causes/leather-life-stonewall-25-memories/
  6. ↑ "Radio 5 Live - Listen Live - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  7. ↑ Sanderson, Terry (1995-06-12). "Gay broadcasting: Out and about Gay Media: With an unprecedented batch of gay radio and television on the way, we look at gay broadcasting, upheavals in the gay press". The Guardian. p. 016. ISSN   0261-3077. ProQuest   294894367 . Retrieved 2024-01-11.


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