1967 in British radio

This is a list of events in British radio during 1967.

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Events

January

• No events

February

• No events

March

• Disc jockey John Ravenscroft returns to the UK from California, joins the offshore 'pirate radio' station Wonderful Radio London and adopts the name John Peel.

April

• No events

May

• John Peel's after-midnight show on pirate station Radio London becomes The Perfumed Garden and, contrary to the station's daytime "Fab 40" playlist, he introduces his eclectic mix of folk, blues, psychedelic and progressive rock which continues until the station is forced off the air in August and Peel moves to BBC Radio 1.

June

• No events

July

• No events

August

• 14 August – The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act is passed, making it an offense to advertise or supply an offshore radio station from the UK. This results in the closure of all of Britain's offshore pirate radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline, which moves its supply operation to the Netherlands.

September

• 17 September – First broadcast of The World This Weekend on the BBC Home Service.
• 30 September – BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 (modelled on the successful pirate station Radio London) and middle of the road Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4. Radio 1 is launched at 7:00 am with Tony Blackburn's Daily Disc Delivery show (theme tune: Johnny Dankworth's "Beefeaters") and the first track played is The Move's "Flowers in the Rain".

October

• 1 October – The first Peel Session for BBC Radio 1 takes place, featuring psychedelic rock band Tomorrow.

November

• 8 November – BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.

December

• 22 December – Panel game Just a Minute is first aired on Radio 4 with Nicholas Parsons as chairman (initially as a temporary stand-in); Parsons continues to chair the show until shortly before his death in 2020.

Unknown

• University Radio York obtains a testing and development licence as "Radio Heslington"; it becomes the United Kingdom's second student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.

Station debuts

• 30 September –
  • BBC Radio 1
  • BBC Radio 2
  • BBC Radio 3
  • BBC Radio 4
• 8 November – BBC Radio Leicester
• 15 November – BBC Radio Sheffield
• 22 November – BBC Radio Merseyside
• Unknown – University Radio York

Closing this year

• 14 August – Wonderful Radio London (1964–1967)

Programme debuts

• May – The Perfumed Garden on Radio London (1967)
• 1 October – The Official Chart on BBC Radio 2 (1967–Present)
• 22 December – Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4 (1967–Present)

Continuing radio 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)
• Round the Horne (1965–1968)
• The Embassy Lark (1966–1968)
• The World at One (1965–Present)

Ending this year

• August – The Perfumed Garden (1967)
• September – Easy Beat (1960–1967)

Births

• 7 January – Mark Lamarr, comedian and radio and television presenter
• 2 February – Tushar Makwana, radio presenter (died 2004)
• 1 March – Jakki Brambles, English television and radio presenter and reporter
• 16 April – Grooverider, drum and bass DJ
• Unknown – Jamie Owen, Welsh radio and television presenter

Deaths

• 1 June – Derek McCulloch, children's radio presenter (born 1897)
• Unknown – Douglas Ritchie, radio news editor and wartime propaganda broadcaster (born 1905)

See also

• 1967 in British music
• 1967 in British television
• 1967 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1967

References