This is a list of events from British radio in 1958.

Contents

• Events
• Programme debuts
• Continuing radio programmes
• 1930s
• 1940s
• 1950s
• Births
• See also
• References

Events

• 29 March – The first averaged BBC Top 20 chart is broadcast on Pick of the Pops .
• 1 April – BBC Radiophonic Workshop created.
• 22 April – "Sunday Afternoon at Home", one of the most famous episodes of the radio comedy series Hancock's Half Hour , is broadcast on the BBC Light Programme for the first time.
• 28 August – Anton Bruckner's Symphony No 4 is performed at the BBC Proms, the first complete Bruckner symphony to be played in the concert series since 1903.
• 29 September – The BBC Light Programme's broadcasting hours are extended once again, now going on air 30 minutes earlier, at 6:30 a.m.

Programme debuts

• 17 July – The Flying Doctor on the BBC Light Programme (1958–1963) ^[1]

Continuing radio programmes

Births

• 29 January – Linda Smith, comedian (died 2006)
• 12 February – Michael Fenton Stevens, comedy actor
• 22 February – Gordon Kennedy, Scottish actor and director
• 3 May – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-born British comedy performer
• 14 May – Jan Ravens, actress and impressionist
• 29 June – Mark Radcliffe, radio broadcaster
• 30 July – Liz Kershaw, presenter
• 21 September
  • Simon Mayo, presenter
  • Penny Smith, presenter
• 7 October – Emily Buchanan, radio & tv journalist
• 11 December – Pete Mitchell, presenter (died 2020)
• Shaun Prendergast, actor

See also

• 1958 in British music
• 1958 in British television
• 1958 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1958
• O'Gorman

References