BBC Light Programme

The Light Programme was a BBC radio station broadcasting mainstream light entertainment and music. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the longwave frequency -- which until 1939 had been used by the BBC National Programme -- of the wartime General Forces Programme, and closed at 02:02 on 30 September 1967. At 05:30 on the same day it was replaced by Radio 1 on its mediumwave frequencies, and by Radio 2 (the renamed Light Programme) on its longwave frequency. The FM frequencies were mainly used by Radio 2 but sometimes leased to Radio 1 until that station acquired its own FM frequencies in the late 1980s.

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BBC - Radio station - Mainstream - Music - 29 July - 1945 - Longwave - BBC National Programme - Wartime - General Forces Programme - 30 September - 1967 - Radio 1 - Mediumwave - Radio 2 - FM - 1980s

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The long-running "soap opera" The Archers was first heard nationally on the Light Programme, on 1 January 1951, although it had been broadcast in the Midland regional service of the BBC Home Service in 1950.

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Soap opera - The Archers - 1 January - 1951 - BBC Home Service - 1950

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