BBC Home Service

The BBC Home Service was the original name for Radio 4 and was on the air from 1939 until 30 September 1967. Unlike Radio 4, it had regional variations and was broadcast on medium wave rather than long wave, with a network of FM (then known as VHF) transmitters being added progresively from 1955.

Some of its announcers

Lionel Marson
Ronald Fletcher
Wallace Greenslade
Stuart Hibberd
Frank Phillips
Joy Worth
Colin Doran
Kenneth Kendall
Harry Middleton

Some of its most remembered programmes

The Archers (1966-67)
The Brains Trust
The Goon Show
In Town Tonight

See also: BBC World Service

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See also: BBC Home Service, 1939, 1955, 1967, 30 September, BBC, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, FM