- Source: 1968 in British radio
This is a list of events in British radio during 1968.
Events
4 February – BBC Radio Nottingham broadcasts the UK's first ever radio phone-in, What Are They Up To Now, hosted by Tony Church.
18 July – The BBC Proms season opens for the first time on a Friday evening, with a tribute to the late Sir Malcolm Sargent.
21 August – Protests are heard at tonight's BBC Proms concert by the USSR Symphony Orchestra against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Station debuts
31 January – BBC Radio Nottingham
14 March – BBC Radio Stoke
24 June – BBC Radio Leeds
Programme debuts
Undated – The Living World on BBC Radio 4 (1968–Present)
14 January – Brain of Britain (as an independent programme) on BBC Radio 2 (1968–Present)
October – Helo Sut Dach Chi? presented by Hywel Gwynfryn on BBC Wales, the first Welsh-language pop radio programme
11 October – Follow This Space on BBC Radio 4 (1968–1969)
Continuing radio programmes
= 1940s
=Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
Family Favourites (1945–1980)
Down Your Way (1946–1992)
Letter from America (1946–2004)
Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
Twenty Questions (1947–1976)
Any Questions? (1948–Present)
The Dales (1948–1969)
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)
In Touch (1961–Present)
The Men from the Ministry (1962–1977)
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (1964–1973)
Petticoat Line (1965–1979)
The World at One (1965–Present)
The Official Chart (1967–Present)
Just a Minute (1967–Present)
Ending this year
9 June – Round the Horne (1965–1968)
11 June – The Embassy Lark (1966–1968)
July – Billy Cotton Band Show (1949–1968)
Births
15 January – Alex Lowe, actor, comedian and voice artist
16 May – Stephen Mangan, actor and presenter
2 June – John Culshaw, comic actor and impressionist
15 June – Samira Ahmed, arts journalist and broadcaster
4 July – Ronni Ancona, comic actress and impressionist
20 July – Julian Rhind-Tutt, actor
2 October – Victoria Derbyshire, presenter
18 October – Rhod Gilbert, Welsh comedian and presenter
Sonita Alleyne, media production company executive and college principal
Chris Neill, comedy producer and performer
Approximate date – Christopher Green, comedy writer-performer
Deaths
10 February – Mary O'Farrell, actress (born 1892)
24 June – Tony Hancock, comedian, suicide, in Australia (born 1924)
See also
1968 in British music
1968 in British television
1968 in the United Kingdom
List of British films of 1968
References
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