Actor Christopher Biggins talks phone snatch
Christopher Biggins is the latest well-known name to suffer a phone theft in London.
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Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley joins Three Counties Radio
BBC Three Counties Radio has launched three new shows to give audiences something unique, something they love and something hilarious, presented by Steven Allen, Justin Dealey and Spandau Ballet star, Tony Hadley.
BBC Arts to bring treasures displayed in museums and galleries to screen
Eleven documentaries from across England on the art that tells the history of the country.
Georgey Spanswick to host the evening show on BBC Local Radio
Georgey Spanswick is to replace Mark Forrest as the evening host on the beebs cost-cutting exercise; the networked evening show across the regional services.
BBC Local Radio to celebrate Tony Blackburn milestone
Radio DJ Tony Blackburn will be celebrated in a special to be broadcast 50 years to the day since his first radio broadcast.
BBC personality Frank Wappat dies
BBC North personality Frank Wappat has died aged 84. The presenter, who worked for the corporation for four decades, became a popular name across the North of England with his long-running nostalgia programme.
BBC local Radio host Stuart Linnell in police car accident
Local BBC radio presenter Stuart Linnell has been injured after an incident involving a police car as he headed to work earlier today.
BBC Local Radio aim to boost female presenter roles
BBC Local Radio and the BBC Academy’s College of Journalism are uniting for a series of events to encourage female presenters into local radio.
BBC Radio Stoke’s Paula White apologises for being tiddly on air
Audio of the BBC Radio Stoke presenter’s show became an internet hit as Paula White slurred her way through a full half hour before anyone at the beeb pulled the plug.
BBC Radio offers new route into broadcasting
Back in the 1970s BBC Local Radio truly was of the area where anyone and everyone could offer their services to the regional output, since then university courses have taken president, often over talent, and now the beeb hopes to restore the balance, but not on a regional basis. The corporation is launching a new apprenticeship scheme aimed at giving people without a university degree a break into national radio.