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This is a list of events from British radio in 1961.
Events
- 5 June – Hans Keller broadcasts a performance of the spoof avant-garde composition Mobile for Tape and Percussion by the fictitious composer Piotr Zak on the BBC Third Programme.[1][2][3]
- September – Alan Freeman replaces David Jacobs as the main presenter of Pick of the Pops.
- David Davis is appointed head of children's sound broadcasting at the BBC.
- Chorus singer Irene Thomas enters and wins the Brain of Britain contest, heralding a forty-year period as a mainstay of radio panel game quiz programmes.
Programme debuts
- 8 October – In Touch on the BBC Home Service (1961–Present)
- October – Once Over Lightly on the BBC Light Programme (1961–1962)[4]
Programme endings
- 29 January – Ray's a Laugh (1949–1961)
Continuing radio programmes
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)
- Billy Cotton Band Show (1949–1968)
- A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)
1950s
- The Archers (1950–Present)
- Listen with Mother (1950–1982)
- From Our Own Correspondent (1955–Present)
- Pick of the Pops (1955–Present)
- The Clitheroe Kid (1957–1972)
- My Word! (1957–1988)
- Test Match Special (1957–Present)
- The Today Programme (1957–Present)
- The Navy Lark (1959–1977)
- Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
- Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)
1960s
- Farming Today (1960–Present)
- Easy Beat (1960–1967)
Births
- 1 January – Fiona Phillips, radio and television presenter
- 3 January – Justin Webb, journalist and presenter on Today
- 3 March – Paul Baskerville, disc jockey
- 10 April – Nicky Campbell, Scottish-born broadcast presenter
- 14 May – David Quantick, comedy writer, music journalist and radio broadcaster
- 28 June – Mark Goodier, disc jockey
- 17 July – Jeremy Hardy, comedian (died 2019)
- 22 July – Carolyn Quinn, journalist and presenter on PM
- 27 June – Lynn Parsons, disc jockey
- 25 October – Pat Sharp, radio and television presenter
- Unknown
- Robin Brooks, radio dramatist
- Corrie Corfield, newsreader
Deaths
- 21 April – Wallace Greenslade, announcer (born 1912)
- 22 October – L. Stanton Jefferies, musician and radio producer (born 1896)
See also
References
- ↑ "B.B.C. Deny Hoax". The Times. No. 55148. London. 1 August 1961. p. 10D.
- ↑ Lewis, Anthony (2 August 1961). "B.B.C. Admits a Musical Hoax: Noise by Imaginary Composer". The New York Times. p. 1.
- ↑ Mitchell, Donald (18 August 1961). "Critics Were Not Deceived: Zak and His 'Mobile'". The Daily Telegraph. London. p. 10.
- ↑ Slide, Anthony (2023). Just a Regular Bloke: the Ted Ray Story. BearManor. ISBN 9798887711072.
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