Track the development of the BBC schedules - and of Radio Times. Click below for a typical day's BBC television and radio listing from each featured year. Also available is every Christmas Day schedule from 1936 to 2007


1930s

Nov 1936

1960s

Jan 1960

Dec 1961

Aug 1962

Apr 1963

Oct 1964

Apr 1965

Mar 1966

Nov 1967

Apr 1968

Feb 1969

1970s

Apr 1970

Oct 1971

Sep 1972

Sep 1973

May 1974

Nov 1975

Oct 1976

May 1977

Mar 1978

Dec 1979

1980s

May 1980

Nov 1981

May 1982

Sep 1983

Jan 1984

Feb 1985

Oct 1986

Dec 1987

Aug 1988

Jan 1989

1990s

Nov 1990

May 1991

Oct 1992

Apr 1993

Jan 1994

Mar 1995

May 1997

Dec 1999

Christmas

1936-49

1950-59

1960-64

1965-69

1970-74

1975-79

1980-84

1985-89

1990-94

1995-99

2000-04

2005-06

1940s

Jun 1946

1950s

Jul 1950

Sep 1955

Feb 1957

May 1959



Opening Night
Launch day schedules from various radio and television channels


Please note that I am not able to fulfill requests for programme schedules for any particular date in history. However you can now try the BBC Programme Catalogue, a massive (though not complete) database of nearly a million BBC television and radio programmes dating back 75 years. Daily schedules are available, but be aware that only programmes listed in the database appear in the listings, the main omissions being news bulletins. (Also note that regional variations all appear in the same listing). However most programmes since July 1976 do appear in the database; before then, for the most part, only programmes that exist in the BBC archive, either in part or in whole, are listed.

For more on the development of the Radio 1 schedule, click here (external site)

 



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