Radio Newsreel
Other names | The News and Radio Newsreel |
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Genre | News magazine |
Running time | 15 mins |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | |
Syndicates | |
Created by | Norman Collins |
Original release | 1940 31 October 1988 | –
Opening theme | "Imperial Echoes" by Arnold Safroni[1] |
Radio Newsreel is a news programme produced by the
An example of the programme's early content is the coverage of Captain George Robinson's "Adventure in a lifeboat adrift in the Atlantic", broadcast on 19 August 1942.[3]
The programme was broadcast in the United Kingdom at 19:00 each evening; transmission to North America was scheduled for 03:30
Radio Newsreel was created by Norman Collins, who had worked as the head of the BBC General Forces Programme and the BBC Light Programme.[4] It was originally broadcast on the Overseas Service of the BBC, and also broadcast by the BBC General Forces Programme from 27 February 1944 until 28 July 1945.[5] It returned to domestic airwaves on 3 November 1947, when it started to be broadcast by the BBC Light Programme,[6][7] later transferring to the BBC Home Service and eventually BBC Radio 4. In 1953, the programme had a domestic audience of over 4 million listeners.[8] On 3 April 1970, it was broadcast in the UK for the last time,[9] but it continued to be broadcast on the BBC World Service for a further 18 years, with the final edition on 31 October 1988.[10]
Outside the United Kingdom, the programme was also carried weekly on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States during World War II[11] and as part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio programming in the 1970s. Until 1987, American Public Radio also carried the programme in the United States.[12]
References
- ^ Weedon, Robert (1 September 2010). "Audio Identities: Radio news themes". Image Dissectors. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ISBN 0-7619-4100-2.
- ISBN 0-7190-2397-1.
- ISBN 0-19-874233-9.
- BBC Magazines. 28 July 1945. p. 19. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- BBC Magazines. 31 October 1947. p. 7. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ISBN 0-19-215964-X.
- ^ Simon, Earnest Dawn (1953). The B.B.C. from Within. London: V. Gollancz. p. 81.
- BBC Magazines. 28 March 1970. p. 51. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- BBC Magazines. 29 September 1988. p. 91. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ISBN 0-19-511150-8.
- ISBN 0-415-03604-6.