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Table of Content Clipping and Exporting in Archive Search 1945: World War II Featured video Collection guides England World Cup winner Cohen dies On 29 July 1945, the BBC resumed its previous regional structure. Following the wartime success of the Forces Programme and General Forces Programme, light entertainment was transferred to the new Light Programme, whilst "serious" programming – news, drama and discussion – remained on the regionalised Home Service. Popular light programming such as It's That Man Again remained on the Home Service, and some speech programming of the type pioneered by the Forces Programme – the newly launched Woman's Hour being very much in this mould – was on the Light Programme. Under this arrangement, regional broadcasting in its pre-war form was no longer feasible, but much of the programming was gradually decentralised to the former regional studios because of the risks from enemy attack or bombing in London to broadcasting nation