2 September – The BBC Light Programme starts broadcasting at breakfast and now goes on-air each day, apart from Sunday, at 7am.
30 September –
Network Three launches, providing a service of adult educational programmes. It broadcasts on the frequencies of the Third programme, and is on air for 75 minutes each day, resulting in the Third Programme coming on air a little later in the evening.
The BBC Home Service's lighter content transfers to the Light Programme.
September – For the first time, a chart rundown with the format of running through the charts of the week, playing the top tens from various music papers plus entries to top 20s, is introduced as part of Pick of the Pops.
28 October – The Today programme launches on the BBC Home Service as a programme of "topical talks" to give listeners an alternative to listening to light music which the Home Service had previously broadcast at breakfast.[1]
Programme debuts
1 January – My Word!, series run, on the BBC Home Service (1957–1988)
April – The Clitheroe Kid, series run, on the BBC Home Service (1957–1972)
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