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HISTORY OF RADIO 2
Welcome to the Radio 2 Archive

Read the history of the UK's most listened to radio station. Hear the tunes that defined the decades. Read the big news of the day. Meet the presenters. Look in horror at the fashions. Just choose a decade and dive in!

1960s

The new radio network - Radio 1, (the Popular Music Service), and Radio 2, (the Light Programme), started on 30 September 1967.
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1970s

The 1970s saw the emergence of Terry Wogan as one of Radio 2's key presenters with the Breakfast Programme.
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1980s

The 1980s saw some new arrivals to Radio 2. Many presenters who would become household names appeared for the first time.
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1990s

Radio 2 entered the 90s in glorious stereo, becoming the first national station to transmit entirely on FM.
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Pirate Johnnie Walker
Recreating the era of pirate radio

Third Reich & Roll
Presented by Stephen Fry

From Edison to iTunes
The rise of the record labels

Dermot O'Leary
With Bat For Lashes in session

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