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      • This is a list of events in British radio during 1980.


      Events




      = January

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      2 January – BBC Radio 3 launches a new, extended teatime programme Mainly for Pleasure. The two-hour long programme replaces the much shorter Homeward Bound.
      13 January – Forces request programme Family Favourites is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for the final time.


      = February

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      BBC Radio Wales launches the first of two permanent community opt-out stations, Radio Deeside, after successful community radio experiments in 1978. The reopening is in response to the closure of the Shotton steelworks.


      = March

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      19–20 March – MV Mi Amigo, the ship from which the pirate radio station Radio Caroline is broadcast, runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary.
      31 March – BBC Radio 1's broadcast hours are cut back. The station starts broadcasting on weekdays an hour later and Saturday evening programming ends. The station simulcasts BBC Radio 2 during this additional downtime although by the end of the year Radio 1 has stopped broadcasting Radio 2 through the night.


      = April

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      11 April – CBC in Cardiff becomes the first of the second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations to start broadcasting. It is the first new ILR station since 1976.


      = May

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      30 May – The final edition of soap opera Waggoners' Walk is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.


      = June

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      No events.


      = July

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      No events.


      = August

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      No events.


      = September

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      September – Due to the continued expansion of BBC Local Radio, the regional news bulletins, broadcast in England four times a day Monday to Saturday on BBC Radio 4, end, apart from in the south west which is the sole part of England which still does not have any BBC local service.


      = October

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      18 October – Radio Tay begins broadcasting to the Dundee area from the Angus transmitter.


      = November

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      14 November – Radio Tay begins broadcasting to the Perth area.
      15 November – The very last episode of BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy show The Burkiss Way, "Wave Goodbye to CBEs the Burkiss Way", lampoons what the writers considered to be the BBC's obsequious approach to the Queen Mother's 80th birthday celebrations, and its first repeat transmission is cut by 6 minutes on the instructions of the station controller.


      = December

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      1 December – BBC Scotland carries out a one-week experiment in breakfast television. It is a simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland's breakfast show Good Morning Scotland.
      6 December – Andy Peebles records an in-depth interview with John Lennon in New York City for BBC Radio 1, two days before Lennon's murder.


      = Undated

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      Autumn – Land-based pirate radio station Dread Broadcasting Corporation begins to air from West London as Britain's first black music "pirate" station.


      Station debuts


      February – BBC Radio Deeside
      11 April – CBC (Cardiff Broadcasting Company)
      23 May – Mercia Sound
      10 July – Hereward Radio
      11 September – BBC Radio Norfolk
      15 September – 2CR (Two Counties Radio)
      Autumn – Dread Broadcasting Corporation
      17 October – Radio Tay
      23 October – Severn Sound
      7 November – DevonAir Radio
      11 November – BBC Radio Lincolnshire


      Programme debuts


      8 April – Radio Active on BBC Radio 4 (1980–1987)
      25 November – Hordes of the Things on BBC Radio 4 (1980)


      Continuing radio programmes




      = 1940s

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      Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
      Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
      Down Your Way (1946–1992)
      Letter from America (1946–2004)
      Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
      A Book at Bedtime (1949–Present)


      = 1950s

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      The Archers (1950–Present)
      The Today Programme (1957–Present)
      Sing Something Simple (1959–2001)
      Your Hundred Best Tunes (1959–2007)


      = 1960s

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      Farming Today (1960–Present)
      In Touch (1961–Present)
      The World at One (1965–Present)
      The Official Chart (1967–Present)
      Just a Minute (1967–Present)
      The Living World (1968–Present)
      The Organist Entertains (1969–2018)


      = 1970s

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      PM (1970–Present)
      Start the Week (1970–Present)
      Week Ending (1970–1998)
      You and Yours (1970–Present)
      I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (1972–Present)
      Good Morning Scotland (1973–Present)
      Kaleidoscope (1973–1998)
      Newsbeat (1973–Present)
      The News Huddlines (1975–2001)
      File on 4 (1977–Present)
      Money Box (1977–Present)
      The News Quiz (1977–Present)
      Breakaway (1979–1998)
      Feedback (1979–Present)
      The Food Programme (1979–Present)
      Science in Action (1979–Present)


      Ending this year


      13 January – Family Favourites (1945–1980)
      30 May – Waggoners' Walk (1969–1980)
      15 November – The Burkiss Way (1976–1980)


      Births


      6 February – Tom Ravenscroft, radio DJ
      28 February – Katy Wix, Welsh comedy actress
      7 May – Kate Lawler, reality TV personality, DJ and model
      3 June – Rickie Haywood-Williams, radio DJ and TV presenter
      4 June
      Nii Odartei Evans, radio announcer and voice actor
      Danielle Perry, radio presenter and musician
      30 July – Melvin Odoom, radio DJ and TV presenter/comedian
      5 August – Sophie Winkleman, Lady Frederick Windsor, actress
      3 November – Elis James, Welsh comedian
      Unknown
      Sara Mohr-Pietsch, classical music presenter
      Helen Zaltzman, podcaster, broadcaster and scriptwriter


      Deaths


      9 February – Renée Houston, actress (The Clitheroe Kid) (born 1902)
      26 April – Dame Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Discord in Three Flats) (born 1893)
      23 June – John Laurie, actor (The Man Born to Be King) (born 1897)
      24 July – Peter Sellers, actor, comedian and radio personality (born 1925)
      22 August – Norman Shelley, actor (born 1903)
      6 October – Hattie Jacques, actress (Educating Archie, Hancock's Half Hour) (born 1922)
      19 October – D. G. Bridson, radio producer and author (born 1910)
      20 October – Isobel Barnett, broadcasting personality (born 1918; suicide)
      8 December – Charles Parker, documentary producer (born 1919)


      See also


      1980 in British music
      1980 in British television
      1980 in the United Kingdom
      List of British films of 1980


      References

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