The Sunday Hour

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The Sunday Hour
Other namesSunday Half Hour (1940–2013)
GenreReligious broadcasting
Running time60 mins (6:00 am – 7:00 am)
(30 mins until 2013)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home station
Hosted by
Original release14 July 1940 (1940-07-14) –
28 January 2018 (2018-01-28)
Websitewww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wqyr

The Sunday Hour was a long-standing show broadcast on the BBC Light Programme and then BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom, broadcast for 78 years between 14 July 1940 and 28 January 2018.[1]

For most of its life it occupied a Sunday evening slot, latterly between 8:30 pm and 9:00 pm but in 2013 it moved to a Sunday morning slot between 6:00 am and 7:00 am. It broadcast Christian hymns and prayer, and was one of only two remaining Christian-based shows on Radio 2, the other being Good Morning Sunday.

For its first fifty years, many presenters took part, and the entire show was hosted by a different church each week. From September 1990, the format changed so that the show was presented by a regular presenter from the studio, with recordings of hymns, some sung by a "featured choir", inserted between the discussion, prayers and dedications. Each week the show was centred on a specific theme: an event in the Church calendar, a passage of the Bible, or a more general area such as the family or the importance of carers. The longest-serving of the regular presenters was

Passionist priest from Northern Ireland, took over as the presenter in April 2007. Diane-Louise Jordan was the next presenter, replacing Father Brian in February 2012.[2] Jordan announced she was leaving in July 2017.[3] The show's final presenter was the Rev. Kate Bottley
.

From 20 January 2013, the show was extended to an hour and moved to a new slot from 6:00 am to 7:00 am on Sunday mornings. The programme's name was changed to The Sunday Hour. Singer

Michael Ball took over the Sunday evening slot with a new two-hour show.[4]

The show was axed and broadcast its final show on 28 January 2018 after 78 years in favour of a brand new format for Radio 2's Sunday breakfast programme, Good Morning Sunday, starting 4 February.[5]

Presenters

References

  1. ^ "Sunday Half Hour 70th anniversary". Sunday Half Hour. 18 July 2010. BBC Radio 2.
  2. Songs Of Praise
    presenter Diane-Louise Jordan.
  3. ^ "Diane Louise Jordan leaves The Sunday Hour". Radio Today. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2020. Diane Louise Jordan has decided to step down from presenting The Sunday Hour on BBC Radio 2 after five years.
  4. ^ "Michael Ball joins Radio 2 in brand new Sunday night show". BBC Media Centre (Press release). BBC. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2020. On the same date, Sunday Half Hour becomes The Sunday Hour in an extended programme that moves to a morning slot and kicks off the day's faith zone from 6am.
  5. ^ "A new look to Sunday mornings on BBC Radio 2". BBC Media Centre (Press release). BBC. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2020. The new programme replaces two separate programmes – The Sunday Hour (6-7am) which was hosted by Kate Bottley, and Good Morning Sunday (7-9am), which was hosted by Clare Balding.

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