BBC Light Programme

The Light Programme was a BBC radio station broadcasting mainstream light entertainment and music. It opened on July 29, 1945, succeeding the wartime September 30, 1967. At 05:30 on the same day it was replaced by Radio 1 on its Mediumwave frequency, and Radio 2 (the renamed Light Programme) on its Longwave frequency. The FM frequencies were mainly used by Radio 2 but sometimes leased to Radio 1 until Radio 1 acquired its own FM frequencies in the 1980s.

The long running soap opera The Archers was first heard on the Light Programme, on January 1, 1951.