id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6038 BBC Light Programme - Wikipedia .html text/html 1320 190 74 Find sources: "BBC Light Programme" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, the Light Programme (along with the BBC's two other national programmes, the Home Service and the Third Programme) gradually became available on what was known at the time as VHF, as the BBC developed a network of local FM transmitters. The long-running soap opera The Archers was first heard nationally on the Light Programme on 1 January 1951,[5] although a week-long pilot version had been broadcast on the Midlands Home Service in 1950. "Light Programme 29 September 1958 BBC Genome". "Light Programme 29 September 1958 BBC Genome". "Light Programme 29 September 1958 BBC Genome". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6038.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6038.txt