BBC World Service - 1980

Feb 27, 2012, 04:45 PM

A montage of BBC World Service programmes (1 of 3) from around 1980. This was a time when the programme schedule was less news-based than it is these days with a varied diet of news, sport, music, drama, comedy and arts. Lillibullero was played up to the news and Big Ben rang on the quarter or half-hour. The news was read at a steady clear pace, programme announcements full of pauses, partly to allow different frequencies and languages to join or leave the service. In this montage you'll hear Pamela Creighton, Peter Lewis, Take One with Richard Evans, Radio Newsreel, 24 Hours with Alexander McLeod, Outlook with John Tidmarsh and New Ideas with Sarah Mills & Casey Lord. #Radio