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    The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when...
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    National Programme broadcast significantly more speech and classical music than its successor, the BBC Light Programme. Similarly, the Regional Programme broadcast...
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    BBC's third national radio network, the other two being the Home Service (mainly speech-based) and the Light Programme, principally devoted to light entertainment...
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    The BBC Forces Programme was a national radio station which operated from 7 January 1940 until 26 February 1944. Upon the outbreak of World War II on 1...
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  • Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the...
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    1967, replacing the BBC Light Programme – with some of the Light Programme's music shows transferring to the newly launched BBC Radio 1. The first show...
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    references both electric light and "light orchestral music", a popular style featured in places such as the BBC Light Programme between the 1940s and 1960s...
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    National Programme broadcast significantly more speech and classical music than its successor, the BBC Light Programme. Similarly, the Regional Programme broadcast...
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  • Top Gear began life in 1964 on the BBC Light Programme and was revived with a progressive rock focus in 1967 on BBC Radio 1, running with that format until...
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  • Pick of the Pops (category BBC Light Programme programmes)
    long-running BBC Radio programme; it was based originally on the Top 20 from the UK Singles Chart and was first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 4 October...
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