BBC Light Programme (1945-1967)

The Light Programme was a BBC radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and music from July 29, 1945 until September 2, 1967, when it was rebranded as BBC Radio 2.

The service was intended as a domestic replacement for the wartime BBC Forces Programme (later, the General Forces Programme) which had proved popular with civilian audiences in Britain as well as members of the armed forces.

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