1979 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1979.
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Events
January
- 27 January – BBC Radio 2's last closedown at 02:02. Sarah Kennedy was at the Newsdesk after Brian Matthew finished "Round Midnight". From 02:00 to 05:00 the following night, listeners heard "You and the Night and the Music". Radio 2 has the longest period of continuous broadcasting of any national radio station in the UK.
- 29 January – BBC Radio 1 begins its delayed weeknight mid-evening programme with Andy Peebles joining to host the new programme. It had originally been scheduled to launch on 13 November 1978 but was delayed as a result of trade union disputes.
February
- No events
March
- No events
April
- 1 April – The first edition of Feedback is broadcast on BBC Radio 4.[1]
May
- No events
June
- No events
July
- No events
August
- No events
September
- 2 September – Tony Blackburn replaces Simon Bates as host of Radio 1's Top 40 show.
October
- No events
November
- November – BBC Radio Cymru's on-air hours are extended to 65 hours a week by introducing mid-morning output on weekdays. Previously the station had only been on air at breakfast time along with extended news bulletins at lunchtime and early evening plus some off-peak opt outs.
December
- December – After a decade on air, United Biscuits closes down its internal radio station United Biscuits Network.[2]
Station debuts
- 11 September – BBC Radio Foyle
Closing this year
- December – United Biscuits Network (1970–1979)
Programme debuts
- 1 April – Feedback on BBC Radio 4 (1979–Present)
- 7 July – Science in Action on BBC World Service (1979–Present)
- 29 September – Breakaway on BBC Radio 4 (1979–1998)
- 30 September – The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 (1979–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)
- Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)
1960s
- Farming Today (1960–Present)
- The World at One (1965–Present)
- The Official Chart (1967–Present)
- Just a Minute (1967–Present)
- The Living World (1968–Present)
- The Organist Entertains (1969–2018)
1970s
- PM (1970–Present)
- Start the Week (1970–Present)
- Week Ending (1970–1998)
- You and Yours (1970–Present)
- I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (1972–Present)
- Good Morning Scotland (1973–Present)
- Kaleidoscope (1973–1998)
- Newsbeat (1973–Present)
- The News Huddlines (1975–2001)
- The Burkiss Way (1976–1980)
- File on 4 (1977–Present)
- Money Box (1977–Present)
- The News Quiz (1977–Present)
Ending this year
- 11 November – Hello Cheeky (1973–1979)
Births
- 9 March – Adele Roberts, disc jockey
- 4 May – Wes Butters, radio presenter
- Unknown – Lucy Horobin, radio presenter
Deaths
- 27 September– Gracie Fields, singer and actress, BBC and Radio Luxembourg broadcaster, 81[3]
- 8 November – Sydney Tafler, actor, 63[4]
- 30 November – Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer, 69[5]
- December – Peter Eton, broadcast producer
gollark: As supreme world dictator I would A/B test things in different regions, so we could finally know things without making everyone experience a bad system.
gollark: You can blame basically all deaths ever on capitalism, or none of them.
gollark: It's kind of poorly defined.
gollark: My supreme world dictatorship has killed *nobody*.
gollark: The canonical, correct economic system is me, as supreme world dictator. All others are incorrect.
See also
References
- BBC Genome Project – BBC Radio 4 listings 1 April 1979
- "UK On air thread". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
- Colin Larkin (1995). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Guinness Pub. p. 1443. ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3.
- John A. Willis (1980). John Willis' Screen World. Crown. p. 236.
- Joyce Grenfell; Reggie Grenfell; Richard Garnett (25 September 1980). Joyce. Macmillan. p. 13.
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