Dear List,
Thanks for all those comments. I went back and looked at the listing which
has only one set of programmes all day until -
6.20 : News from the North (449.1 Metres). 6.20: Northern Ireland News and
"Listeners Diary" (285.7 Meters).
So as Matthew's saved Radio Times makes clear, the sex education programme
went only to the North and not only to Northern Ireland. It would have been
bizarre had it been the reverse. Until the end of the 1950s and probably
later newspapers and magazines were still censoring their Irish editions and
I have always assumed that included Northern Ireland.
Having sex education or for example discussions of menopause on BBC radio
was still challenging in the 1940s. I don't know when this ceased to be the
case. I would be interested to hear what list members know about this also.
I checked the listing and there was no Kiloherz given for Forbes on piano
but actually the listing shifts back and forwards between separate
programmes and shared ones through the evening.
I realise there is some thing I cannot read due to the poor quality of the
.pdf copy between Family Life" and (449.1 Metres). There are four figures -
perhaps [S o:
Here is the listing again.
7.30: "Family Relationships" 11-"Sex Education for the Securer Founding of
Family Life" (449.1 Metres): R.J. Forbes (Piano).
Has anyone noticed, by the way, how hard it is to find the information on
where radio programmes are on the dial on the BBC website or in the
newspapers these days?
Thanks again,
Hera
As it happens, the only Radio Times from the 1940s which I have is a North
of England and Northern Ireland edition for 26 May to 1 June 1946, which
survived because it was used for suitcase lining! A rubric appears at the
top of the Home Service listing (headed 'North and Northern Ireland Home
Services'):
"When this Service broadcasts separate North of England and Northern Ireland
programmes, the Northern Programme can be heard on 449.1 m., and the
Northern Ireland Programme on 285.7m."
So it appears that it was the North of England Home Service which was spared
the sex education rather than Northern Ireland...
Matthew
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:21:57 +0100
From: McLoone Martin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Help with a BBC radio listing
Northern Ireland was not considered big enough to have its own wavelength
and in fact had to share 285.7 with the North-East (Newcastle) and not the
North west. I remember as a near toddler in the 1950s hearing the weather
forecast for Northumberland and Durham in my home in Derry but I have no
memory of hearing sex education broadcasts!
Martin McLoone
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