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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 nationally. Most broadcast genres are represented, notably music programming of all kinds, features and drama, news and current affairs, talks and experimental arts programmes. A further 300,000 hours of BBC Sound Archive content can be accessed on request via the Library’s Listening and Viewing Service, while current radio news output is made instantly available through the Library’s onsite Broadcast News server. The service provided between five and seven national news bulletins a day from London – with drama, talks and informational programmes. Non-topical talk programmes and heavier drama output were transferred to the Third Programme when it began broadcasting on 29 September 1946. A dual service provides access to an on-site collection of some 200,000 hours of radio recordings dating back to the first decade of broadcasting, as well as ‘on-demand’ research access to the extensive radio collections of the BBC Sound Archive.
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Sound recordings can also be accessed in Boston Spa, Yorkshire. Use the online Sound and Moving Image Catalogue to search for onsite recordings. BBC Archive content is accessible on request by appointment with the Listening and Viewing Service. Additionally, the Library’s Broadcast News service provides instant streamed access to current radio and television news from BBC Radio 1, Radio 4, Radio 5Live, BBC World Service, LBC and talkSPORT. Collectively the radio collections constitute a sonic record of the United Kingdom’s continuously evolving arts, news, social and political discourse over much of the last century.
A group of four British women recently arrived on a remote Antarctic island to look after its population of passing tourists and penguins. As they prepare for Christmas at the bottom of the world, they tell BBC News how they're settling into their new home. This 2016 project investigated the future of radio and radio archives.
1945: World War II
The "national regions" became Radio Scotland, Radio Wales/Cymru and Radio Ulster, at first relaying the majority of Radio 4 programming but later becoming completely independent. This unique collection shows life and events across the UK since the 1940s. You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections. These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The service also broadcast educational programmes for schools during the day, backed with booklets and support material. Once a British military base and research station, nowadays it consists of a post office, a museum and a gift shop. The team plays host to passing cruise ships and keeps an eye on the island's population of around 1,000 gentoo penguins. The Listening and Viewing Service, based in the Rare Books & Music Reading Room, provides free public access to the Sound Archive's collections of recorded sound and video in St Pancras.
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But Mairi says the changing weather conditions seem to have delayed the breeding season. They say the unpredictability of Antarctic weather means that the team could suddenly remain isolated for days. The Royal Navy had been called in to help the team and fix the roof of the museum, which had been damaged under the weight of the snow. Clare recalls the moment the sailors left and the team remained on the island on their own, surrounded only by penguins and icebergs silently floating in the channel. Speaking to the women is extremely difficult, but Clare and Mairi - the team's wildlife monitor - have managed to tell me about their experience over a patchy satellite phone line.
Collections of Pre-war and World War 2-era radio will be available from summer and autumn 2015 respectively. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. On 30 September 1967, the BBC split the Light Programme into separate pop music and entertainment stations, becoming Radio 1 and Radio 2 respectively. The Third Programme became Radio 3, with the Music Programme losing its separate identities , and the Home Service was replaced by Radio 4.
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We'd be deeply grateful if you'd join the one in a thousand users that support us financially. Composite programme compiled from extracts from tape recordings to recall broadcast memories of 1932, with linking by H. This page tells you all you need to know about the archive products you can access as a programme maker for the BBC. "There's lots of snow and we also don't have any fast sea ice in the bay, which is unusual. The penguins' eggs won't survive if they're laid in snow, so if we keep getting these warmer, milder winters, that's not going to be good for our penguins here." The team's main task when it comes to monitoring the wildlife is to count the eggs that are usually laid at this time of year.
By 1964, the Home Service was on the air each day from 6.35 am (7.50 am on Sundays) and would conclude each night at the precise time of 11.48 pm. Since there's no internet connection in Port Lockroy, the main way for the team to be in touch with their families and keep up with events in the outside world is by using the Wi-Fi on the ships. And although the team HAS received advanced first aid training, should they need to see a doctor, they can find one on board a visiting vessel. In this short video, colleagues from Editorial Policy and Legal talk about some of the issues you should consider when reusing archive content.
These were reduced in number when government limits on radio broadcasting hours were relaxed in 1964, and the Music Programme began broadcasting during the daytime on the frequencies of the (evening-only) Third Programme. They were discontinued when regular broadcasting began daily from 7.00 am to 6.30 pm on 22 March 1965. On 1 September 1939, the BBC merged the two programmes into one national service from London. The reasons given included the need to prevent enemy aircraft from using differentiated output from the Regional Programme's transmitters as navigational beacons. To this end, the former regional transmitters were synchronised in chains on two frequencies, 668 and 767 kHz , with an additional chain of low-powered transmitters (known as "Group H") on 1474 kHz appearing later.
These sound collections are complemented and contextualised by a broad range of published literature, catalogues and electronic resources. With the introduction of BBC Local Radio, starting with Radio Leicester on 8 November 1967, it was felt that the future of non-national broadcasting lay in local rather than regional services. The BBC produced a report called Broadcasting in the Seventies on 10 July 1969, proposing the reorganization of programes on the national networks and the end of regional broadcasting. Initially, Radio 4 continued to provide more regional programming and scheduling, and the BBC's weekly programme journal magazine Radio Times listed the channel's offerings under the heading "Radio 4 – Home Service" with particular reference to the seven broadcasting regions individually.
The content in this collection is provided for research, educational and information purposes . The last Home Service region for the South West England was an VHF/FM opt-out of Radio 4, Morning Sou'West was also carried on several low-power medium wave transmitters before the programme ended on 31 December 1982, to paving the way for two new local stations launched on 17 January 1983. Radio 4 FM continued to carry four daily five-minute regional news bulletins on Mondays to Saturdays until mid-1980, by which time when BBC Local Radio had reached most areas of England. The wide coverage of the Holme Moss transmitter meant that listeners in much of Northern England both received to combine North and North West news bulletins. Following the end of the war, the Home Service adjusted its broadcasting hours, now commencing at 6.25 am each weekday and 7.50 am on Sundays, and ending at around 11.10 pm each night.
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