• This is a list of events in British radio during 1981. 2 January – Dave Lee Travis presents his final edition of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show after two...
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  • Royal Air Force, 85 1981 in British radio 1981 in British television 1981 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1981 Scaping, Peter, ed. (1982)...
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  • This is a list of British television related events from 1981. 1 January – The Channel Four Television Company is established in preparation for the launch...
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  • films produced in the United Kingdom in 1981 (see 1981 in film): 1981 in British music 1981 in British radio 1981 in British television 1981 in the United...
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  • Rings 1981 radio series is an epic fantasy adventure for BBC Radio 4, adapted from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1955 novel of the same name. It is the third radio dramatisation...
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  • films of 1981 List of Argentine films of 1981 List of Australian films of 1981 List of Bangladeshi films of 1981 List of British films of 1981 List of...
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  • This is a list of events in British radio during 1980. 2 January – BBC Radio 3 launches a new, extended teatime programme Mainly for Pleasure. The two-hour...
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  • is a list of events in British radio during 1973. Test transmissions for the London music and entertainment Independent Local Radio licence using the VHF...
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  • This is a list of events in British radio during 1979. 27 January – BBC Radio 2's last closedown at 02:02. Sarah Kennedy is at the Newsdesk after Brian...
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  • events in British radio during 1976. No events. 8 March – Radio 210 begins broadcasting to the Reading area. 16 March – Independent Local Radio begins in Northern...
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  • British radio. Each year is annotated as a reference point. 1916 in British radio – 1917 in British radio – 1918 in British radio – 1919 in British radio...
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    September 1889 – 19 February 1981) was a British radio entrepreneur and Conservative Party politician. Plugge was born in Walworth, only son of Frank Plugge...
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  • is a list of events in British radio during 1983. 4 January – BBC Radio 2 revives Music While You Work. 17 January – BBC Local Radio comes to south west...
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  • a list of events in British radio during 1984. During the first half of 1984, the BBC conducts five trials of community stations in Greater Manchester...
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  • Donald Macintyre, British naval officer and naval historian (b. 1904) Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer (b. 1911)...
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  • by BBC Radio services. The first British pirate radio station was Radio Caroline, which started broadcasting from a ship off the Essex coast in 1964. By...
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  • This is a list of events in British radio during 1972. 1 January – The Greenwich Time Signal broadcast on BBC radio now records Coordinated Universal Time...
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  • This is a list of events in British radio during 1989. 1 January – London "pirate" radio presenter Sammy Jacob, known as DJ Sammy Jay, sets up part-time...
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  • list of events in British radio during 1986. The Home Office sanctions six experiments of split programming on Independent Local Radio. Up to ten hours...
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  • of events in British radio during 1978. No events. No events. 8 March – The first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – the radio series later...
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  • a list of events in British radio during 1988. 1988 sees regular evening programming begin to appear on weeknights on BBC local radio. The programming...
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  • This is a list of events in British radio during 1985. 7 January – Ken Bruce takes over The Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Terry Wogan and David Jacobs moves...
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  • This is a list of events in British radio during 1977. 3 January – At 6.45am, BBC Radio Cymru launches, and becomes the first broadcasting outlet dedicated...
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  • This is a list of events in British radio during 1987. 1 January – At midday, new transmitter for Radio 210 is switched on. this occurs after the Independent...
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  • 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 List of years in British radio Table of years in radio...
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  • in British radio during 2014. 1 January – Jazz FM stops broadcasting on the national Digital One multiplex, but continues to be available on DAB in London...
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    1981 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1981. 1981 (MCMLXXXI)...
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  • of events in British radio during 1982. 2 January – Sue Townsend's comic character Adrian Mole is introduced to a national audience in a radio play, The...
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  • British radio in 1947. 2 January – Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, starring Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch, having started out as a recurring sketch in...
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  • This is a list of events from British radio in 1949. 9 January – The death today in London of comedian Tommy Handley is announced after the Sunday evening...
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