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BBC Radio 2 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Light Programme.

BBC Radio 2

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

Radio 2

Woman's Hour

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Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

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Light Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 29th July 1945 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

Light Programme

Marjorie Anderson

Elsie Fogerty

Woman's Hour: Elsie Fogerty

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16/12/1965

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Elsie Fogerty

Elsie Fogerty interview from the archive.

Speech Pioneer, Elsie Fogerty, who founded the Central School of Speech and Drama, recalled on the centenary of her birth by Dame Sybil Thorndike, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier and Gwynneth Thurburn. Air Letter from Venice: sent by Marion Hunter and Sally Holloway visits a hospital where the W.V.S. arranges a meeting place for patients and their visitors.

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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