• Workers' Playtime (radio programme)
  ...]]|[[w:BBC Forces Programme|BBC Forces Programme]]|[[w:BBC Light Programme|BBC Light Programme]]}} ...es Programme]],<ref name=rt921 /> then from 1957 onwards solely on the [[w:BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]]. For all its 23 years each show concluded
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• BBC Sound Archive
  ...d Archive''' is a collection of audio recordings maintained by the [[w:BBC|BBC]] and founded in 1936. Its recordings date back to the late 19th century an ....shtml?chapter=2 |title=BBC Archive - The BBC Sound Archive |publisher=www.bbc.co.uk |access-date=2010-02-15 }}</ref>
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• Show 21
  *[[Stanley Black]] and The BBC Dance Orchestra ...952-02-17}} at 9.30pm was also cancelled, and replaced by repeats of ''The World Today'' and ''[[Everyman]]''. The show was eventually broadcast at 9.30pm o
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• Tom Sloan (television executive)
  | order = [[BBC]] Head of Light Entertainment ...4 October 1919 – 13 May 1970) was a British broadcaster and journalist and BBC Head of Light Entertainment in the 1960s.
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• Charles Chilton
  {{Short description|BBC radio presenter, writer and producer (1917–2013)}} | employer = [[w:British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]]
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• Dave Morris (comedian)
  | notable_work = ''Club Night'' ([[w:BBC Home Service|BBC Home Service]]) ...128</ref> then as a [[blackface]] comic. He was called up into the Army in World War 1 and resumed his stage career in 1918, touring constantly in variety
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• Charles Maxwell (radio producer)
  ...0 – 4 August 1998) was a British radio producer who produced shows for the BBC such as ''[[Take It From Here]]'' and brought together the scriptwriting pa ...rnational Broadcasting Company]] (IBC). With the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], IBC set up [[Radio International Fécamp]] and Maxwell worked as one
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• The Happidrome (radio)
  '''''The Happidrome''''' was a [[w:BBC radio|BBC radio]] comedy programme produced in Britain between 1941 and 1947. It was ...no]] in [[w:north Wales|north Wales]], with an audience of war workers and service personnel.<ref name=foster>Andy Foster and Steve Furst, ''Radio Comedy 1938
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• The Burning Embassy
  ...million. The show was repeated Thursday 9pm, {{Date|1957-10-17}}, on the [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]] to 2.6 million listeners. == Transcription Service Synopsis ==
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• Week Ending
  | runtime = 25 mins<!-- See BBC Genome/Radio Times website before changing. --> | home_station = [[w:BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]]
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• Orbiter X
  | home_station = [[BBC Light Programme]] | syndicates = [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]]
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• Jack Watson (actor)
  ==Military service== During the [[w:World War II|Second World War|]] he was a [[w:physical training instructor|physical training instruct
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• Tommy Handley
  | image = Thomas Reginald 'Tommy' Handley - BBC.jpg ...ndash; 9 January 1949) was an English comedian, best known for the [[w:BBC|BBC]] radio programme ''[[It's That Man Again]]'' ("''ITMA''") which ran betwee
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• Appointment with Fear (radio)
  ...intment with Fear''''' was a horror drama series originally broadcast on [[BBC Radio]] in the 1940s and 1950s, and revived on a number of occasions since ...ccessdate=2014-07-16}}</ref> A tenth series was broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1976.
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• Dave Freeman (British writer)
  ...Air Arm at the outbreak of the [[Second World War|Second World War]]. His service with the Pacific fleet took him to Ceylon, India, South Africa, Kenya and f ...with [[Benny Hill]] from 1955 to 1968 for ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'' on [[BBC]]. The early series were notable for spoofs of popular television personali
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• The Idiot Weekly
  ...[The Goon Show]]'s'' references to the [[BBC]], e.g. "This is the BBC Home Service." ''(Coin dropped into charity tin)'' "Thank you." ...wn: ''The Ashes'', ''The King's Bridge Saga'', ''The American Cup'', ''The World's Greatest Adventure'', ''The Spon Plague'', ''King's Cross - The East Berl
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• Branded (Dad's Army)
  ...w.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTQ4qW-ePc Jimmy Perry recalls writing Dad's Army], BBC ''Dad's Army Night''</ref> ...man?" During the telling of the story, Godfrey reveals that in the [[First World War|previous war]], he was a [[conscientious objector]] who refused to figh
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• Jimmy Grafton
  ...was a producer, writer and theatrical agent. He served in [[w:World War II|World War II]] as an [[w:officer (armed forces)|officer]] in the [[w:Bedfordshire ...Grafton was instrumental in ensuring the quartet were hired by the [[w:BBC|BBC]] for their new radio show, eventually called ''[[The Goon Show]]''. Grafto
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• The Burkiss Way
  | record_location = BBC [[Paris Theatre|Paris Studio]], Lower Regent Street, London | home_station = [[BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]]
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• Issy Bonn
  ...the early 1920s. He took the stage name Issy Bonn at the suggestion of [[BBC Radio]] producer John Sharman, who produced a popular programme, ''John Sha ...tertainments National Service Association]] (ENSA), and after the [[Second World War]] wrote and starred in his own road shows including ''The Big Broadcast
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