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Retro: England Wed, March 4, 1981

EddieTheRapFan

EddieTheRapFan

I thought it would be a nice idea to post vintage radio schedules from abroad.
From The Glasgow Herald.

RADIO 1
5:00 Radio 2
7:00 Mike Read
9:00 Simon Bates
11:00 Andy Peebles
12:45 Paul Burnett
14:30 Dave Lee Travis
16:30 Peter Powell
19:00 Radio 1 Mailbag
20:00 Richard Skinner
22:00 John Peel
0:00 Sign-off

RADIO 2
5:00 Bob Kilbey
7:00 Terry Wogan
10:00 Jimmy Young
12:00 David Hamilton
14:00 Ed Stewart's Request Show
16:00 Much more music
18:00 John Dunn
20:00 European soccer special
21:30 The songwritters
22:00 Wit's End
22:30 Sue MacGregor
23:00 Brian Matthew
2:00 You and the night and the music

RADIO 3
6:55 Weather
7:00 News
7:05 Your midweek choice
9:00 News
9:05 This week's composer
10:00 Music for organ
10:35 Shumann
10:50 Light music miniatures
11:50 Haydn and Mozart
13:00 News
13:05 Music interlude
13:25 Test match special
16:00 Wordsworth: The Prelude
16:35 Mozart and the violin
16:55 News
17:00 Mainly for pleasure
19:00 By the water
19:30 St. David's music week
20:25 Six continents
20:45 St. David's music week
21:40 Pablo Casals
22:00 Caxtons are mechanical birds
22:45 Two Shubert songs
23:05 Piano nocturne
23:15 Test match special
23:30 Sign-off

RADIO 4
6:00 News briefing
6:10 Farming today
6:30 Today
8:35 Yesterday in Parliament
9:00 News
9:05 Mid-Week: Russell Harty's People
10:00 News
10:02 Gardener's question time
10:30 Daily service
10:45 Morning story
11:00 News
11:05 Baker's dozen
12:00 News
12:02 You and yours
12:27 Frank Muir goes into
13:00 The world at one
13:40 The Archers
14:00 News
14:02 Woman's hour
15:00 News
15:02 Afternoon theatre
15:50 Zoo talk
16:00 Choral evensong
16:45 Story time
17:00 News magazine
18:00 Six o'clock news
18:30 My music
19:00 News
19:05 The Archers
19:20 Checkpoint
19:45 Person to person
20:45 File on 4
21:30 Kaleidoscope
22:00 The world tonight: news
22:30 There were giants in those days
23:00 A book at bedtime
23:15 Financial world tonight
11:30 Today in Parliament
0:00 News
0:15 Shipping forecast
0:23 Sign-off
 
Interesting stuff. What other stations were listed, if any? At the time I think Glasgow had those four plus Radio Scotland and Radio Clyde. 1 commercial station in a city of over a million- unthinkable in modern Britain!

The radio 4 schedule these days doesn't look so very different to that one. Certainly the Archers, the World at One, Gardeners question time, Women's hour, Book at Bedtime, Today in Parliament and You and Yours are still features of the schedule today. See the current line up here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm


Radio 1 has obviously changed beyond all recongition- John Peel continued until his death in 2004, most of the others left (or were sacked) in the early 90s. (For hardcore Brit Radio Fans only) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWbZTOhoMZw gives the full lowdown on radio ones overnight transformation.

Radio 2 changes more slowly, and has gradually absorbed the baby boomers as they left Radio 1 through the 80s and 90s. Terry did the breakfast show until 2009. He and Brian Matthew continue to broadcast at weekends. John Dunn has died, I think Ed Stewart is fully retired these days- he did continue into the early 00s with weekend shows.

I don't know much about radio 3- it is really for hardcore classical music lovers. Test match special continues but it's on Longwave 198 these days.
 
The others stations listed were Scotland, Clyde and and Forth. I didn't list them since they aren't national networks, but I can if you want :)
 
It might be interesting, but only if it's no trouble.

Radio Forth officially covered Edinburgh, but might well have overspilt into Glasgow, especially on AM, which was still the more popular at that time (it was beginning to change though)
 
Of course it's no trouble, specially if it's for a British person who asks nicely. Coincidentally, some of my best online friends are Brits.

RADIO SCOTLAND

6:00 Radio 4
6:10 Scottish farming news
6:30 Good morning Scotland
8:45 Jimmy Mack
10:45 Ken Bruce
12:30 Lunchtime report
13:00 Radio 4
13:40 Weather
13:45 Nickety Nackety
14:00 News
14:02 Radio 2
15:50 Reflections
16:00 News
16:05 James Cox Meets
17:00 Afternoon report
18:00 Radio 4
18:30 Piping recital
18:55 Focus
19:20 Rock on Scotland
20:00 News
20:02 Radio 2
22:00 Evening report
22:30 Tom Farrie
0:00 Radio 4

RADIO CLYDE

6:00 News
6:03 Dave Marshall
9:05 Dougie Donnelly
12:05 Richard Park
16:03 Bill Smith
17:45 Mike Raddoch
19:03 Westminster now
19:05 Citizens' advice
20:00 Street sounds
22:05 Bookcase
22:30 Westminster now
22:35 When music was music
0:05 Serendipity with Sykora
2:30 Jim Waugh

RADIO FORTH

5:00 Breakfast show
9:05 Bobby Malcolm
12:05 Brian Ford
14:05 Bill Torrance
16:05 Making tracks
19:02 Forth estate
20:02 Rock report
22:05 Topside stateside
0:05 Midnight melody
2:00 Sign-off
 
Many thanks. So many stations used to close down at night back then. Only Radio 2 and Radio Clyde were 24 hr. Again so different from today when just about every station runs round the clock (often automated/voice tracked though)

Interesting to see Radio Scotland taking some Radio Four programmes. It began life as a opt out of Radio Four and only went full time in 1978. Even today, Radio Scotland is slightly more 'highbrow' than BBC local radio in England.
 
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