Bbc Radio News 1960S

[Khandro]

A shot in the dark, but does anyone remember, or know, how the Radio 4 news was presented in the 60s ?

Was it say, every hour, or just a certain times? Was there a special evening news programme?

I know later in 1970 BBC Radio 4 started its, The World Tonight  programme at 10 pm, which I think is still running, but I can't find out how it was before that.

Thank you.

 

[wiltsman]

Have a look at this:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_home_service/1960-11-19

[newmodarmy]

I vagely remember a name something like Jack de Manio in the morning news programme- 7 until 9 ?

[Hopkirk]

Was Radio 4 the Home Service?

[Hopkirk]

Oops. Wiltsman answered that. I really should read the answers first.

[newmodarmy]

example here

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_home_service/1967-04-25

yes radio 4 was the home service, think radio 2 was the Light programme

[Khandro]

It's something I'm writing about the time of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

I want to describe a group of people gathering around a radio set listening to the BBC news, desperate for information, & I'd like to put it at a certain time.

I suppose it went out on the hour (every hour?) but things were quite different then &  before 24 hour news came along.

In my setting there is no TV.

[Khandro]

That's an amazing web site (why couldn't I find it?)

Yes,yes; The World at One, with William Hardcastle 😀

[Peter Pedant]

I was at school - news at six and news at ten ( wiv da donger) and nothing in between. radio

tel - BBC news at six, and at nine - ITV news at ten which was meant to be better. one news reader HAD been ed of Spectator and so was allowed far more leeway than now

this is from memory

( and as we know, memories are social constructs depending on theinteress and attention of the memoriser and will vary on retelling - rather obviously once the idea is expressed)

 

[Peter Pedant]

I suppose it went out on the hour (every hour?)

no I dont remember so