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BBC Light Programme - definition of BBC Light Programme in Encyclopedia (179 words) |
 | The Light Programme was a BBC radio station broadcasting mainstream light entertainment and music. |
| It opened on July 29, 1945, succeeding the wartime Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme, and closed at 02:02 on September 30, 1967. |
| The long running soap opera The Archers was first heard nationally on the Light Programme, on January 1, 1951, although it had been broadcast on the Midland region of the BBC Home Service in 1950. |
| BBC Third Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (417 words) |
| The BBC Third Programme was the third national radio network broadcast by the BBC, has since become Radio 3, but was originally known (at least within the BBC) as C. |
| The other two were the Home Service (mainly speech based) and the Light Programme, dedicated to light music, usually cover versions of popular music of the day played by the "in-house" BBC orchestras. |
| Its existence was controversial from the start, partly because of perceived "elitism"-it was sometimes criticised for programmes of "two dons talking" and also for the costs of output relative to a small listener reach. |
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