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BBC Genome has grown up... please say hello to Programme Index!
Now you can browse 10 million listings, watch or listen to more than 200K playable programmes and browse early editions of Radio Times - all in the same place.
genome.ch.bbc.co.uk
Programme Index contains all the content of BBC Genome, but with added data to bring the listings up-to-date.
For a bit of background and to find out more, read our blog here:
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Programme Index gives us a rich timeline of the BBC's historical broadcasts from 1923 to the present day.
Big thanks to @AndyArmstrong for piecing the massive jigsaw puzzle together and to @mrstth for building the new look.
Author Dorothy L Sayers was born today in 1893. Among her works was the ground-breaking religious serial The Man Born to Be King, for Children's Hour in 1941/2. She is pictured here with Robert Speaight, who played Jesus, and producer Val Gielgud. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fa9f9662…
As Euro 2020 is finally set to begin, the new Genome blog by guest blogger Paul Hayes looks back to the first international football tournament covered by the BBC - at the 1948 London Olympics... bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entri…
Writer Michael Abbensetts was born #onThisDay in 1938.
He created the Birmingham-based BBC Two drama series Empire Road in 1978, which featured on the front cover of Radio Times the following year.
You can browse his BBC credits here: bit.ly/2Qm5WHY
Prudence Kitten, who first appeared in children's television today in 1950, was another puppet friend of Annette Mills, following Muffin the Mule.
The show came from the newly opened BBC Lime Grove studios.
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From Whitsun 1936, this classic H.M. Bateman cover heralded a week of holiday programmes... Read the whole magazine here: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/5a2…
Hit or Miss? Juke Box Jury, based on the US series of the same name, began on BBC TV today in 1959.
A panel of four celebrities gave their verdict on new pop records, with the ever-suave David Jacobs as host.
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#OnThisDay in 1945, singer Evelyn Dove (pictured) was among the stars of Variety Band-Box, an entertainment series aimed at troops serving overseas.
Also in this edition was singer/pianist Violet Carson (later to play Coronation Street's Ena Sharples).
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Miranda Hart's Joke Shop - the radio precursor of the TV sitcom Miranda - was first heard as a pilot show in Radio 2's Comedy Hour today in 2007. A series followed in 2008 and the TV transfer the year after that...
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"Not only are his melodies and rhythms distinctly individual and full of variety, but his feeling for harmonic effect is extremely keen and sensitive": bit.ly/2RugmWu
Remembering musical great, Duke Ellington, who died #OnThisDay in 1974
Welcome back #EurovisionSongContest2021 tonight on BBC One and Radio 2.
The first Radio Times Eurovision cover (pictured) was in 1960, drawn by Victor Reinganum. The UK entry that year was Brian Johnson with "Looking High, High, High".
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Cambridge Footlights Revues have launched many a showbusiness career, and the programme broadcast #OnThisDay in 1982 was no exception: its cast included Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery and Emma Thompson genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a1a1b9be…
#OnThisDay in 1965, BBC Two's Jazz 625 presented legendary New Orleans clarinettist George Lewis, as a guest of one of those he influenced, Mr Acker Bilk. Also featured was singer Beryl Bryden.
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As Leicester City and Chelsea prepare to face each other in the FA Cup Final this afternoon, here's a look back to the Radio Times cover from the Liverpool derby between Everton and Liverpool 35 years ago... genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0d55994d…
One of the oddest sitcoms ever broadcast was Jimmy Perry's series The Gnomes of Dulwich, which began today in 1969. Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd, formerly co-stars in Hugh and I, played garden gnomes "Big and Small"... genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/75cc5a87…
Quick Before They Catch Us - featuring "three teenagers on the loose in London" - was a zeitgesty adventure series beginning today in 1967. The memorable theme was composed by Monty (James Bond) Norman and performed by Paddy, Klaus and Gibson genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f2d6bdb6…
