Longest-running BBC radio programme

hiflier | 13:21 Fri 28th Aug 2009 | Radio

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What is the longest-running radio programme that is still being broadcast now, and under the same name as when it started?

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squarebear

The news?

barry1010

The Archers?
Shipping Forecast?

barry1010

Any Questions. Started in 1948 and is still going.

barry1010

Desert Island Disks. Started in 1942, still broadcast.

squarebear

Surely the news has been going since day one though?

SeaJayPea

It's The Daily Service on Radio 4. Been going since 1928 and is the longest-running radio programme in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Service

hiflier

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Thank you for all your responses. It does seem to depend upon how you define a 'programme'. I can't see that the 'news' is a programme even though it goes out at defined times of the day and has a structured setup. Clearly 'the daily service' is a programme and has been running for all these years (as per wikipedia). However, I was hoping that someone would point me in the direction of these two items. The first is 'the week's good cause', first broadcast 26th Sept 1926 but subsequently changed to 'radio 4 appeal', and the other is the 'shipping forecast', first transmission 28th Sept 1926 and still going strong under that title. But I would like to know how that programme coped during the war years!.