18-610: (Redirected from BBC Recordings ) Live at the BBC or BBC Recordings are pop and rock music recordings originally made for or by the BBC Light Programme or BBC Radio 1 . Many recordings were released under several name variants. Live at the BBC [ edit ] Live at the BBC (The Beatles album) , 1994 On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 (The Beatles album), 2013 Live at
36-560: A Yes (band) album On Air , a 2016 Queen album Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Live at the BBC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Live_at_the_BBC&oldid=1222067509 " Categories : Disambiguation pages BBC Radio 1 Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from April 2022 Short description
54-634: A new closedown time of 2.02 am was introduced. The Light Programme closed down for the last time at 2.03 am on Saturday 30 September 1967. At 5.30 am, it was replaced by BBC Radio 2 and at 7.00 am by BBC Radio 1 on medium wave. Some programmes broadcast from the Light Programme still continue today, such as Junior Choice , The Archers , Pick of the Pops , Desert Island Discs and Woman's Hour . Other programmes included: BBC Sessions (Cocteau Twins album) BBC Sessions
72-442: A period of a year when the Light Programme was forced to end its broadcasting day one hour earlier at 11.00 pm. This commenced in mid-February 1947 as an effect from the appalling winter of 1946–1947 which saw a fuel shortage in the country with the government enforcing electricity saving measures, one of which was losing one hour of broadcasting per day from the Light Programme. Even after the fuel shortage had ended by spring 1947,
90-531: A series of albums by Windsong BBC Live & In-Session , a 2005 Motörhead album BBC Archives (album) , a 2002 Iron Maiden album BBC in Session , The La's album BBC Live , a 2005 Violent Femmes album Government Commissions: BBC Sessions 1996–2003 , a Mogwai album Radio One (album) , a 1988 Jimi Hendrix Experience album BBC Radio Sessions , an album by The Bluetones Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969–1970 ,
108-546: Is an album of BBC studio recordings by the band Cocteau Twins released in 1999 by Bella Union in the UK and Rykodisc in the USA. The album spanned the band's career from the early 1980s through the 1990s. Much of the first disk was taken from a series of early 1980s Peel sessions . The second disk contained several tracks recorded during the group's performance on the 1980s Radio 1 series Saturday Live . The compilation peaked at No. 87 on
126-446: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages BBC Light Programme The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when it was replaced by BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 . It opened on 29 July 1945, taking over the long wave frequency which had earlier been used – prior to
144-471: Is today for BBC Radio 4 , although adjusted slightly to 198 kHz / 1515 metres from 1 February 1988) and gave fairly good coverage of most of the United Kingdom , although a number of low-power medium wave transmitters (using 1215 kHz / 247 metres) were added later to fill in local blank spots. Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, the Light Programme (along with the BBC's two other national stations –
162-552: The BBC Home Service and the BBC Third Programme ) gradually became available on what was known at the time as VHF , as the BBC developed a network of local FM transmitters. From its first day of broadcasting in 1945 until Monday 2 September 1957, the Light Programme would be on the air from 9.00 am until midnight each day, apart from Sundays when it would come on the air at 8.00 am until 11.00 pm. There was, however,
180-526: The 11.00 pm closedown each night continued as BBC Radio found itself in financial problems and needed to save money. The midnight closedown of the Light Programme resumed one year later from Sunday 11 April 1948. The long-running soap opera The Archers was first heard nationally on the Light Programme on New Year's Day 1951, although a week-long pilot version had been broadcast on the Midlands Home Service in 1950. From Monday 2 September 1957,
198-453: The BBC (Free album) , 2006 Live at the BBC (Focus album) , 2004 Live at the BBC (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel album) , 1995 Live at the BBC (The Housemartins album) Live at the BBC: 1967–1970 ( The Moody Blues album), 2007 Live at the BBC (Shed Seven album) , 2007 Live at the BBC (Slade album) , 2009 Live at the BBC (Status Quo album) , 2010 Live at
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#1733092900136216-517: The BBC (Richard & Linda Thompson album) , 2011 Live at the BBC , Maria McKee , 1991 Live at the Beeb [ edit ] Live at the Beeb , the 2nd EP of The Universal , by Blur, 1995 At the BBC [ edit ] Soft Cell at the BBC , 2003 Pixies at the BBC , 1998 At the Beeb , a 1989 album by Queen At the BBC (Siouxsie and the Banshees album) , 2009 Bowie at
234-416: The BBC (The Beautiful South album) Live at the BBC (Robert Cray album) , 2008 Live at the BBC (Curved Air album) , 1995 Live at the BBC (Sandy Denny album) , 2007 Live at the BBC (Dire Straits album) , 1995 Live at the BBC (Electric Light Orchestra album) , 1999 Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album) , 2007 Live at the BBC (Fleetwood Mac album) , 1995 Live at
252-1076: The Beeb , a 2000 David Bowie album At the BBC , a 2001 Mighty Mighty album At the BBC (Joe Jackson album) , 2009 At the BBC , a 2009 Shawn Phillips album R.E.M. at the BBC , a 2018 R.E.M. album BBC Sessions [ edit ] The BBC Sessions (Belle and Sebastian album) , 2008 BBC Sessions (The Searchers album) , 2004 BBC Sessions (Cocteau Twins album) , 1999 BBC Sessions (Cream album) , 2003 BBC Sessions (Rory Gallagher album) , 1999 BBC Sessions (The Jimi Hendrix Experience album) , 1998 BBC Sessions (Led Zeppelin album) , 1997 The BBC Sessions (Ocean Colour Scene) BBC Sessions (Saxon album) , 1998 BBC Sessions (The Specials album) , 1998 BBC Sessions (Texas album) , 2007 BBC Sessions (Tindersticks album) , 2007 BBC Sessions (Loudon Wainwright III album) , 1998 BBC Sessions (The Who album) , 2000 BBC Sessions (The Yardbirds album) BBC Sessions 1968–1970 (Deep Purple album) , 2011 The Complete BBC Sessions (Cast) Swing
270-481: The Heartache: The BBC Sessions , a 1989 Bauhaus album The BBC Sessions (Electric Light Orchestra album) , 1999 The BBC Sessions (Small Faces album) , 1999 BBC Sessions (Green Day album) , 2021 BBC Sessions (2002) by The Nice The Complete BBC Sessions (1997) by Argent The BBC Sessions 1989–2001 (2008) by The Orb BBC Sessions (1997) by The Delgados Taking On
288-456: The Light Programme's broadcasting hours would start to increase, with a new early morning start time of 7.00 am until midnight, later moving to 6.30 am from Monday 29 September 1958. In 1964, broadcasting hours were increased even more, with a new morning start time of 5.30 am from Monday 31 August. Up until September 1964, the Light Programme would always end its broadcasting day at midnight; however this changed on Sunday 27 September 1964, when
306-962: The World: Deluxe Edition - Disc Three: BBC Sessions , by Gun BBC Sessions: 1964–1977 (2001) by The Kinks Radio 1 Sessions [ edit ] The Radio One Sessions (Syd Barrett album) , 2004 Radio 1 Sessions (Big Country album) , 1994 The Radio One Sessions (Cowboy Junkies album) , 2002 The Radio One Sessions (The Damned album) , 1996 The Radio One Sessions (Elastica album) , 2001 Radio 1 Sessions (Generation X album) Radio 1 Sessions (Inspiral Carpets album) , 1996 The Radio One Sessions (Stiff Little Fingers album) BBC Recordings [ edit ] The BBC Recordings (Budgie album) The BBC Recordings (The Sound album) Radiation (BBC Recordings 84–86) , by Cabaret Voltaire Other recordings [ edit ] BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert ,
324-713: The outbreak of the Second World War on 1 September 1939 – by the BBC National Programme . The service was intended as a domestic replacement for the wartime BBC General Forces Programme which had gained many civilian listeners in Britain as well as members of the British Armed Forces . The long wave signal on 200 kHz / 1500 metres was transmitted from Droitwich in the English Midlands (as it still
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