Editing BBC Light Programme (section)

==Programming==
Some programmes broadcast from the Light Programme still continue today, such as ''[[Junior Choice]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001qxb|title=Junior Choice|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref> ''[[The Archers]]'',<ref name=johncain/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr|title=The Archers|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref> ''[[Pick of the Pops]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wqx7|title=Pick of the Pops|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref> ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr|title=Desert Island Discs|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref> and ''[[Woman's Hour]]''.<ref name=johncain/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb|title=Woman's Hour|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref> Other programmes included:
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* ''[[Al Read|The Al Read Show]]''<ref name=lightprogrammecomedy>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio2/light_programme_comedy.htm|title=Light Programme Comedy|publisher=Radio Rewind|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Appointment with Fear (radio)|Appointment with Fear]]''<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2010/october-2010/mann.pdf|title=An Aristocratic Plod, Erstwhile Commandos and Ladies who Craved Excitement: Hammer Films' Post-War BBC Crime Series and Serial Adaptations|last=Mann|first=David|journal=Scope|issue=18|date=October 2010|pages=3}}</ref><ref name=schedule195709/>
* ''[[The Archers]]'' (1951–1967)<ref name=bbcradio1964/><ref name=johncain/><ref name=newlookinradio/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Ticket to Ride (song)|The Beatles Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride]]'' (1965)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-celebrates-the-beatles|title=The BBC celebrates The Beatles|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref><ref name=thebeatles/>
* ''[[Beyond Our Ken]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Billy Cotton Band Show]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightprogrammemusic/>
* ''Breakfast Special''<ref name=schedule196709/>
* ''[[The Clitheroe Kid]]''<ref name=bcglightprogramme/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Dick Barton – Special Agent]]''<ref name=johncain>{{cite book|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/UK-Books/The-BBC-70-Years-of-Broadcasting-Cain-1992.pdf|title=The BBC: 70 years of broadcasting|last=Cain|first=John|date=1992|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-28|pages=60–62, 146}}</ref><ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Does the Team Think?]]''<ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/> (1945–1946)
* ''[[Easy Beat (radio programme)|Easy Beat]]'' (1960–1967)<ref name=lightprogrammemusic/><ref name=demise>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio2/light_programme_demise.htm|title=Light Programme Demise|publisher=Radio Rewind|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Educating Archie]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Family Favourites]]''<ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/> (1945–1967)
* ''[[Friday Night Is Music Night]]''<ref name=johncain/><ref name=schedule196709/> (1953–1967)
* ''From Us to You''<ref name=demise/> (1964)
* ''[[The Goon Show]]'' {{small|(repeats from the [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]])}}<ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]''<ref name=bcglightprogramme/><ref name=johncain/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Have a Go]]!''<ref name=johncain/><ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Housewives' Choice]]''<ref name=bbcradio1964>{{cite web|url=https://transdiffusion.org/2019/07/31/tonights-bbc-radio-in-1964/|title=Tonight's BBC Radio... in 1964|last1=Graham|first1=Russ J.|last2=Bowden-Smith|first2=Kif|date=2019-07-31|publisher=Transdiffusion|access-date=2024-02-28}}</ref><ref name=johncain/><ref name=asabriggs/>
* ''Ignorance is Bliss''<ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[It's That Man Again]]'' {{small|(repeats from the Home Service)}}<ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Journey into Space]]'' (1953–1958)<ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightdrama/>
* ''[[Junior Choice]]'' (1954–1967)<ref name=lightprogrammemusic>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio2/light_programme_music.htm|title=Light Programme Music|publisher=Radio Rewind|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Life with the Lyons]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Listen with Mother]]''<ref name=johncain/><ref name=schedule195709/> (1950–1964)
* ''Meet the Huggetts''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/meet_the_huggetts/|title=Meet the Huggetts|publisher=British Comedy Guide|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''Movie-Go-Round''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d57372f8e6e14417b694e221b6b7a46a|title=Movie-Go-Round|date=December 1957 |publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''Midday Spin''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bdf8ecadc0d24bfd96c291898ebba65f|title=Midday Spin|date=27 September 1966 |publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Mrs Dale's Diary]]'' (1948–1967)<ref name=bbcradio1964/><ref name=johncain/><ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Much Binding in the Marsh]]''<ref name=johncain/><ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Music While You Work]]''<ref name=patternofsound>{{cite web|url=https://transdiffusion.org/2022/09/30/the-new-pattern-of-sound-broadcasting/|title=The new pattern of sound broadcasting|last=Wellington|first=Lindsay|date=2022-09-30|publisher=Transdiffusion|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref><ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=schedule196709/>
* ''[[The Navy Lark]]''<ref name=bcglightprogramme/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/>
* ''[[Orbiter X]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/15/7th-dimension-orbiter-x|title=7th Dimension: Orbiter X|publisher=BBC|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Pick of the Pops]]'' (1955–1967)<ref name=johncain/><ref name=lightprogrammemusic/>
* ''Parade of the Pops''<ref name=demise/> (1960–1967)
* ''[[Paul Temple]]''<ref name=lightdrama>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio2/light_programme_drama.htm|title=Light Programme Drama|publisher=Radio Rewind|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''The Public Ear''<ref name=thebeatles>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/album/live-at-the-bbc/|title=Live at the BBC|publisher=The Paul McCarthy Project|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Live at the BBC (Beatles album)|Pop Go the Beatles]]'' (1963)<ref name=thebeatles/>
* ''[[Radio Newsreel]]''<ref name=newlookinradio/><ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Ray's a Laugh]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''[[Richard Attenborough|Richard Attenborough's Record Rendezvous]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a110bc36778845ea8bd48b1f25b96e99|title=Richard Attenborough's Record Rendezvous|date=2 September 1951 |publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''Riders of the Range''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1b661b495810473c8c044bfd8a1b4151|title=Riders of the Range|date=6 July 1953 |publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Round the Horne]]'' (1965–1967)<ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''Roundabout''<ref name=bbcradio1964/><ref name=schedule196709/>
* ''[[Saturday Club (BBC Radio)|Saturday Club]]'' (1957–1967)<ref name=lightprogrammemusic/>
* ''Shadow of Sumuru''<ref>{{cite book|title=BBC Year Book 1947|date=1947|publisher=BBC|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/BBC/BBC-Annual/BBC-Year-Book-1947.pdf|pages=48}}</ref>
* ''The Showband Show''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/46a4c0624e2e46029585f395ad718298|title=Show Band Show|date=16 July 1953 |publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref> 
* ''Side by Side''<ref name=demise/>
* ''[[Sing Something Simple]]'' (1959–1967)<ref name=lightprogrammemusic/>
* ''[[The Sunday Hour|The Sunday Half-Hour]]''<ref name=1june52/> (1945–1967)
* ''[[The Slide]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/992cf52967e34123aaadf38461a87254|title=The Slide: 1: Moment of Silence|date=13 February 1966 |publisher=BBC Genome|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Sports Report]]''<ref name=asabriggs/>
* ''[[Take It from Here]]''<ref name=asabriggs/><ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''Teenager's Turn – Here We Go''<ref name=demise/>
* ''[[Top Gear (radio show)|Top Gear]]'' (1964–1967; a music show unrelated to the [[Top Gear (1977 TV series)|car franchise]])
* ''[[Variety Bandbox]]''<ref name=simonjpotter2022/>
* ''Waterlogged Spa''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/waterlogged-spa/|title=Waterlogged Spa|publisher=British Comedy Guide|access-date=2024-02-29}}</ref>
* ''[[Welsh Rarebit (radio programme)|Welsh Rarebit]]''<ref name=asabriggs/>
* ''[[Woman's Hour]]'' (1946–1967)<ref name=bbcradio1964/><ref name=newlookinradio/><ref name=asabriggs/>
* ''[[Workers' Playtime (radio programme)|Workers' Playtime]]'' {{small|(Home Service until September 1957)}}<ref name=simonjpotter2022/><ref name=lightprogrammecomedy/><ref name=lightprogrammemusic/>
* ''[[Your Hundred Best Tunes]]''<ref name=lightprogrammemusic/>
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