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- ...Radio International catalogues]</ref><ref>[http://www.bbcradioint.com BBC Radio International]</ref> ...ription Services often retained their copy and many of the surviving radio programmes from the 1940s onwards owe their survival to the fact that Transcription Se3 KB (506 words) - 14:10, 23 January 2023
- {{Short description|British scriptwriter and lyricist}} | nationality = British5 KB (639 words) - 17:46, 8 January 2023
- {{Infobox radio show ...Smith (BBC)|Dorothy Smith]] and others.<ref>[http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/lwm.htm Whirlygig nostalgia site - Accessed 25 Jan 2011]</ref>7 KB (1,044 words) - 17:52, 22 December 2022
- | nationality = British ...18 February 1981) was an English comic [[impressionist]], popular on [[BBC radio]] in the 1940s and 1950s when he was known as "The Voice of Them All".5 KB (645 words) - 14:31, 23 January 2023
- '''Jill Allgood''' (15 November 1910 - 1995) was a British producer, director, script writer, author and broadcaster who worked for th ...'', followed by work as editor, presenter and producer of children's radio programmes. In 1960 she created nine episodes of ''[[w:Four Feather Falls|Four Feather7 KB (1,137 words) - 10:58, 23 November 2022
- | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''George Chisholm''' [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (29 March 1915 – 6 December 1997) was a Scottish [[w:ja4 KB (629 words) - 08:40, 9 January 2023
- {{Short description|British dramatist and radio producer}} | occupation = Dramatist and radio producer3 KB (419 words) - 18:03, 27 December 2022
- {{Infobox radio show | format = Comedy radio3 KB (472 words) - 16:57, 4 January 2023
- ...director and writer, who has been described as "the founding father of the British TV sitcom".<ref name=mccann/> His best-known achievements were to produce ...y Hill]]. He moved into television in 1953, and worked on a wide range of programmes including dancing and [[w:panel show|panel show]]s.<ref name=mccann/>5 KB (775 words) - 22:52, 21 October 2022
- ...ion|television]] domestic [[w:sitcom|sitcom]] from the 1950s (1950–1961 on radio, 1955–1960 on television). ...d War]] and featured with [[Vic Oliver]] in the radio series'' [[Hi Gang! (radio series)|Hi, Gang!]]'' that ran from 1940 to 1949.6 KB (744 words) - 12:55, 19 November 2022
- {{Short description|British Radio Show}}{{italic title}} '''''Stop Messing About''''' was a [[w:BBC radio|BBC radio]] series broadcast in 1969 and 1970. Forced by circumstance into being a fo7 KB (1,073 words) - 11:55, 24 August 2024
- ...of [[BBC Radio 2]] and [[BBC Radio 4]] and later managing director of BBC Radio.<ref name="Stevens"/> ...o-devised the satirical show ''[[Week Ending]]'' and produced other comedy radio shows such as ''[[Just a Minute]]'', ''[[Hello, Cheeky!]]'', ''[[The Burkis7 KB (1,048 words) - 09:00, 6 February 2023
- | honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] ...1970, ed. Peter Noble, p. 337</ref> (14 October 1919 – 13 May 1970) was a British broadcaster and journalist and BBC Head of Light Entertainment in the 1960s8 KB (1,148 words) - 12:32, 18 February 2023
- ...ularised a miniature race of people who inhabited it. Diddy is an informal British word for "little".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/def ...children in the audience. They also appeared in Dodd's [[BBC]] television programmes in the 1960s, as Marionettes. The Diddy Men tend to wear slightly oversized4 KB (544 words) - 12:37, 22 February 2023
- {{short description|British producer}} | occupation = [[w:Radio producer|Radio]] and [[w:television producer|television producer]]6 KB (864 words) - 15:57, 24 January 2023
- {{short description|British radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist}} ...cer, playwright and novelist. He is best remembered for devising the [[BBC Radio]] series ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', which he hosted from its inception in9 KB (1,336 words) - 17:49, 16 January 2023
- {{Infobox radio show | format = [[Radio comedy]]7 KB (966 words) - 00:14, 10 February 2023
- {{Short description|BBC radio presenter, writer and producer (1917–2013)}} | honorific_suffix = [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]]13 KB (1,769 words) - 19:29, 1 January 2023
- ...2009 | accessdate=27 March 2010 | first=Philip | last=Purser}}</ref> was a British actor and, latterly, clergyman. ...ional characters) on ''[[The Navy Lark]]'', a popular [[w:BBC|BBC]] comedy radio series (1959 - 1977), which starred [[Jon Pertwee]], with [[Ronnie Barker]]9 KB (1,301 words) - 14:30, 29 December 2022
- | nationality = British ...was best known for his roles in the early days of the long-running British radio drama ''[[The Archers|The Archers]]'', and as Under-Secretary, Sir Gregory10 KB (1,385 words) - 22:35, 15 March 2023