You can find what was on radio and TV the day you were born. Tv shows BBC schedules from April 1964.
Just go to http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbchomeservice/basic/1944-04-25 and use the search to find yours – this page, for me has the Home service. If you are much younger you may find you will need to search an alternative
For me it is fascinating to be reminded how much has changed since that day during WW2, 70+ years ago. As you will see below, what is now Radio 4, was then the BBC Home Service
Radio started at 7am and closed down at midnight.
It was a mix of serious and light entertainment including news in Welsh at 17:00.
http://oliff.uk/?p=718
: NEWS
and Home Service programme summary
: ‘THE DAILY DOZEN’
Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Lena Blackman.
Contributors
Coleman Smith
May Brown
Pianos: Barbara Laing : Lena Blackman.
: This Week’s Composer
STRAVINSKY
Gramophone records of movements from Pulcinella, Apollo Musagetes, and Baiser de la fee
: NEWS
Programme Parade
: WYNFORD REYNOLDS
and his Orchestra \
: MORNING MISCELLANY
of gramophone records
: ‘ANOTHER WAR-TIME CRICKET SEASON’
Talk By: F. N. S. Creek
: ‘THE SWINGAROOS’
Arrangement With: Jack Payne
: FOR THE SCHOOLS
News commentary
: THE DAILY SERVICE
from page 109 of ‘ New Every Morning ‘ and page 28 of Each Returning Day’. 0 Holy Ghost, thy people blesa ; Benedictus ; Soldiers of Christ, arise
: BEETHOVEN
Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3 played by the Carter String Trio
: ‘ RHYTHM WITHOUT SWING’
Records of Latin-American music with a ‘ different’ flavour. Introduced by B. M. Lytton-Edwards
Introduced By: B. M. Lytton-Edwards
: GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND
Contributors
Conductor: George Thompson
: WORKERS’ PLAYTIME
Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain
: NEWS
: ‘AT SHORT NOTICE’
Topical talk. or a recorded repeat of one of last week’s talks
: LONDON STUDIO PLAYERS
Conducted by Michael Krein , with Gordon Parfitt
Conducted By: Michael Krein
Gordon Parfitt
: ‘BROADWAY MELODIES’
Tunes from the Great White Way, on gramophone records
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Primo Scala ‘s Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood
Contributors
Primo Scala
Directed By: Harry Bidgood
: EVENSONG
from Chester Cathedral
Versicles and Responses Psalm 119. vv. 73-104
First Lesson: Isaiah 62, w. 13 to end Office hymn : On that fair day of Paschal joy (E.H. 124, part 2)
Magnificat (C. Hylton Stewart , in the Dorian Mode)
Second Lesson : 2 Timothy 4, w. 1-11 Nunc dimittis (C. Hylton Stewart , in the Dorian Mode)
Creed and Collects
Lo. round the throne of God (
Henry O. Ley )
Organist, Malcolm C. Boyle
Contributors
C. Hylton Stewart
Organists: Henry O. Ley : Malcolm C. Boyle
: GLAZUNOV
Solemn Overture
Meditation, Op. 22 Serenade, No. 2
Pas de caractère (Slavonic Dance) Symphony No. 7, in F Valse de concert played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Guy Wartack
Contributors
Guy Wartack
: AWR Y PLANT
(Welsh Children’s Hour). Cerddorfa Yagol Hubberston , ger Aberdaueleddau. Arweinydd. Harold Lewis.
Y Plaisham ‘ : Cyfaddasiad o hen storl Wyddelig gan Gwilym E. Thomas
Contributors
Cerddorfa Yagol Hubberston Harold Lewis Gwilym E. Thomas
: CHILDREN’S HOUR
‘Cobbers’: programme for Anzac Day. Songs by the R.A.A.F. Quartet
Talk: ‘Waltzing Matilda’, by George Berrie
Contributors
: NEWS
National and Regional announcements
: ‘ MAKE YOUR OWN MUSIC’
Second programme in the series of talks by Harry Mortimer on brass bands,, with illustrations by brass-bandsmen now in the Services
Contributors: Harry Mortimer
: ‘THE MICROPHONE WANTS TO KNOW”
Questions asked and answers Illustrated in outside broadcasts from places of interest : 4-War-time maintenance of engines between journeys. From a locomotive dep6t in the Midlands. Commentator, Godfrey Baseley
Commentator: Godfrey Baseley
: GERALDO
and his Orchestra, featuring Dorothy Carless , with Doreen Villiers , Len Camber , Derek Roy , Johnny Green , and Three Boys and a Girl
Contributors
Dorothy Carless : Doreen Villiers
Len Camber : Derek Roy
Johnny Green
: THE CHARLIE MCCARTHY PROGRAMME
featuring Edgar .Bergen, the ventriloquist, and his world-famous dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and Ray Noble and his Orchestra
: THE BRAINS TRUST
with impromptu answers to listeners’ questions. An English session with Sir Ernest Barker , Gerald Bullett , C. B. Fry , Lt. Commander R. T. Gould , and H. V. Morton. Question-Master and Chairman, Lord Elton.
Contributors
Sir Ernest Barker ; Gerald Bullett
C. B. Fry : R. T. Gould
Question-Master: H. V. Morton.
: NEWS
: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Contributors
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
: ‘ THE CHURCH IN THE WITNESS-BOX’—
‘ The Church’s Worship-Is it real ?’ : discussion, with Alexander G. Campbell and Rev. George F. Macleod, D.D.
Contributors
Alexander G. Campbell
Rev. George F. MacLeod, D.D.
: PHIL GREEN
and his Concert Orchestra. Music in the star-spangled manner, introduced by Spike Hughes. (Recording of last Saturday’s broadcast)
Contributors
Spike Hughes.
: ‘STRANGE WORLD’ 22
Reading from Coleridge’s ‘ Anima P&tae’, ‘, by Charles E. Stidwilt –
Contributors
Charles E. Stidwilt
: : NEWS