1969 in British radio

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This is a list of events in British radio during 1969.

Events[]

January[]

  • No events

February[]

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.[5]

May[]

  • No events

June[]

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.[6]

August[]

  • No events

September[]

  • No events

October[]

  • No events

November[]

  • No events

December[]

  • No events

Station debuts[]

Programme debuts[]

Continuing radio programmes[]

1940s[]

1950s[]

1960s[]

Births[]

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[]

  1. ^ "Mr Kenneth Horne: Witty Radio and TV Entertainer". The Times. London. 15 February 1969.
  2. ^ Took, Barry (1998). Round the Horne: The Complete and Utter History. London: Boxtree. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7522-2119-9.
  3. ^ Medhurst, Andy (2007). A National Joke: Popular comedy and English cultural identities. London: Routledge. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-0-415-16877-9.
  4. ^ "Stop Messing About". britishcomedy.org.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  5. ^ BBC Genome Project – Radio 2 listings 28 April 1969
  6. ^ - BBC Genome Project - Radio 1 listings 20 July 1969
  7. ^ "BBC Genome Project". The Organist Entertains. Retrieved 16 February 2018.


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