1948 in British radio

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This is a list of events from British radio in 1948.

Events

3 January – Sports Report, the world's longest-running sports radio programme,[1] debuts on the BBC Light Programme.
5 January – The first episode of Mrs Dale's Diary, the first significant British radio serial drama, is broadcast on the Light Programme.

23 March – Radio comedy Take It from Here, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden and starring Jimmy Edwards, is first broadcast on the Light Programme; this first series is set in a fictitious commercial radio station office.

12 October – Topical debate programme Any Questions? is first broadcast on the West of England Home Service[2] chaired by Freddie Grisewood; originally intended to run for six fortnightly editions only, it will still be on the air weekly more than sixty years later.

26 December – The first series of the BBC's annual Reith Lectures, Bertrand Russell on Authority and the Individual, begins broadcasting on the Home Service.[3]
28 December – For the second series of Take It from Here, writers Muir and Norden begin to adopt its familiar three-part sketch show format.[4][5]

Music While You Work (1940–1967)
Sunday Half Hour (1940–2018)
Desert Island Discs (1942–Present)
Family Favourites (1945–1980)
Down Your Way (1946–1992)
Have A Go (1946–1967)
Housewives' Choice (1946–1967)
Letter from America (1946–2004)
Woman's Hour (1946–Present)
Twenty Questions (1947–1976)

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