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Featuring coverage of our Leicester and Leicestershire local sports teams in action: Leicester City, Leicester Tigers, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Leicester Riders and more.
Jan 30, 2022 · Tack a trip back to 1982 with this set of pictures from the Leicester Mercury archive. What a year it was. The news was dominated with the Falklands war and devastation as the IRA struck with the...
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Number of items in the collection: approx 2,500.Venue where material can be listened to: Record OfficeMedia available on: awaiting transferThe BBC Radio Leicester Sound Archive comprises over 2,000 spoken word programme recordings broadcasts from the station's inception in 1967 until the digitisation of the station in 2001. This collection of analogue, local radio broadcast material provides original examples of the history of BBC Radio Leicester, the first of the local network statio...
The BBC Radio Leicester broadcasts in this collection contain numerous recordings made for education, particularly by the producer Paul Cobley in the 1970s. Many of the education programmes look at various aspects of Leicester and Leicestershire history. Mainstream programmes such as "Crosstalk", "Talking Point", the gardening programme "Down to Ea...
BBC Radio Leicester. BBC Radio Leicester is the BBC's local radio station serving the counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at St Nicholas Place in Leicester. According to RAJAR, the station had a weekly audience of 106,000 listeners and a 3.9% share as of December 2023.
This is the yearly broadcast schedule for BBC Radio Leicester. Homepage. Accessibility links. ... Sport; Business; Innovation; Culture; Travel; Earth; Video; ... BBC Radio Leicester Schedule 1980 ...
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The station was the pioneer in the BBC's experimental local radio network, the first of 8, broadcasting on VHF. It was joined later in the month by Sheffield and Merseyside.
