1968 in British radio

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This is a list of events in British radio during 1968.

Events

4 February – BBC Radio Nottingham hosts the UK's first ever radio phone-in.[1]

Station debuts

31 January – BBC Radio Nottingham
14 March – BBC Radio Stoke
24 June – BBC Radio Leeds

Programme debuts

Unknown – The Living World on BBC Radio 4 (1968–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)
The World at One (1965–Present)
The Official Chart (1967–Present)
Just a Minute (1967–Present)

Ending this year

9 June – Round the Horne (1965–1968)
11 June – The Embassy Lark (1966–1968)

Births

2 October – Victoria Derbyshire, presenter
Sonita Alleyne, media production company executive and college principal
Chris Neill, comedy producer and performer

gollark: Fair.

gollark: Websocket does guarantee ordering I believe, it runs over TCP.

gollark: It might be worth adding a limited multiserver thing though.

gollark: Well, the meta fields are dubiously useful I guess, error reporting is useful if your implementation breaks, and the wildcard channel is designed to reduce required trust via giving everyone snooping powers equivalent to that of the person running the skynet server.

gollark: Perhaps there are other worthwhile features it lacks.

References

"We need to talk: why Britain loves radio phone-ins". theguardian.com. 28 January 2018.

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[1] "We need to talk: why Britain loves radio phone-ins". theguardian.com. 28 January 2018.