BBC Light Programme

<p>The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream <a href="/facts/Light_entertainment/IyDnwN5p">light entertainment</a> and <a href="/facts/Light_music/yVU9mv99">light music</a> from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by <a href="/facts/BBC_Radio_1/1RD7Cc9U">BBC Radio 1</a> and <a href="/facts/BBC_Radio_2/UgDIGMh0">BBC Radio 2</a>. It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the <a href="/facts/Long_wave/w4flmdvu">long wave</a> frequency which had earlier been used – prior to the outbreak of the <a href="/facts/Second_World_War/2efV5L1U">Second World War</a> on 1 September 1939 – by the <a href="/facts/BBC_National_Programme/dmYKtdtj">BBC National Programme</a>.
</p><p>The service was intended as a domestic replacement for the wartime <a href="/facts/BBC_General_Forces_Programme/Pfmy5V1j">BBC General Forces Programme</a> which had gained many civilian listeners in <a href="/facts/Great_Britain/TNgGQRPj">Britain</a> as well as members of the <a href="/facts/British_Armed_Forces/9XVvWRfp">British Armed Forces</a>.
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BBC Light Programme