1956 in British radio
Events
- 22 December – The BBC Light Programme begins transmitting from the Wenvoe transmitting station in south Wales on VHF, giving it a wider audience.
Programme debuts
- 24 April – The Clitheroe Kid is piloted on the BBC North Home Service
- June – My Word! is piloted on the BBC Midland Home Service, chaired by John Arlott[1]
- 17 August – Floggit's featuring Elsie and Doris Waters opens on the BBC Light Programme (1956–1959), including Ronnie Barker's radio debut
Continuing radio programmes
1930s
- In Town Tonight (1933–1960)
1940s
- Music While You Work (1940–1967)
- Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
- Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
- Family Favourites (1945–1980)
- Down Your Way (1946–1992)
- Have A Go (1946–1967)
- Housewives' Choice (1946–1967)
- Letter from America (1946–2004)
- Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
- Twenty Questions (1947–1976)
- Any Questions? (1948–Present)
- Mrs Dale's Diary (1948–1969)
- Take It from Here (1948–1960)
- Billy Cotton Band Show (1949–1968)
- A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)
- Ray's a Laugh (1949–1961)
1950s
- The Archers (1950–Present)
- Educating Archie (1950–1960)
- Listen with Mother (1950–1982)
- The Goon Show (1951–1960)
- Hancock's Half Hour (1954–1959)
- From Our Own Correspondent (1955–Present)
- Pick of the Pops (1955–Present)
Births
- 6 January – Angus Deayton, actor and television presenter
- 9 January – Imelda Staunton, actress
- 21 January – Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster
- 14 February – Tom Watt, radio presenter, journalist and actor
- 1 March – Helen Boaden, broadcasting executive
- 4 May – Charlotte Green, radio newsreader and announcer
- 2 June – Susan Rae, Scottish radio newsreader and announcer
- 6 June – Vaughan Savidge, radio newsreader and announcer
- 7 July – Jonathan Kydd, actor
- 2 October – John Pienaar, political journalist
- 30 October – Juliet Stevenson, actress
- 8 November – Richard Curtis, scriptwriter
- 27 November – John McCarthy, journalist
- 26 December – Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster
- 29 December – Fred MacAulay, Scottish comedian
Deaths
- 20 May – Sir Max Beerbohm, theatre critic, humorist and broadcaster (born 1872)
See also
References
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