About this project

This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The ILR Programme Sharing Project originated from a search by Professor Sean Street, originally a producer for Two Counties Radio (2CR) to find tapes that were deposited with the ILR Programme Sharing Scheme. Professor Street eventually located the tapes in a British Library store, including the programmes he had originally contributed in the 1980s.

Bournemouth University's Centre for Broadcasting History Research in partnership with the British Library - National Sound Archive put together a funding bid to digitise the material to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The material was originally transferred to Gold CDRs, but over the life of the project it became apparent that it would be possible to transfer all 1500 CDRs to a single computer hard disk. The Centre for Broadcasting History managed the transfer and once completed The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) created a database to deliver the material over the web to UK higher and further education.

Credits

Luis Carrasqueiro - BUFVC

Chris Clark - British Library

Peter Copeland - British Library

Kelly Deacon-Smith - Bournemouth University

James Fryer - Independent Consultant

Andrew Higginson - Bournemouth University

Matt Holland - Bournemouth University

Julia McCain - Bournemouth University

Gabriella Menni - Bournemouth University

Tony Stoller - formerly of the IBA and CEO of the Radio Authority

Nick Townend - BUFVC

Felicity Wells

Murray Weston - BUFVC

and the Commercial Radio Companies Association [CRCA] (later the Radio Centre), in particular the Chair of The Radio Centre, Paul Brown, who gave generously of his time and experience to create the Licence which made this project possible.

Principal Investigator:

Sean Street
Professor of Radio
Director of The Centre for Broadcasting History Research
The Media School
Bournemouth University

Contributing stations

Station

Coverage and Dates

Westwood One

Production House?

Radio Academy

Production House?

Suffolk Group Radio

Production House?

ORF - Osterreichischer Rundfunk

Austria

SFB - Sender Freies Berlin

West Germany - Berlin

Rundfunk DER DDR

East Germany?

Radio Aire 1981 -

Leeds

Beacon Radio 1976 -

Woolverhampton & Black Country 1976 - , Shrewsbury & Telford 1987 - .

Breeze AM 1989 -

AM split for Essex Radio 1989

BRMB Radio 1974 -

Birmingham

Radio Broadland 1984 -

Norwich & Great Yarmouth

Brunel Radio 1988 -

Bristol / Bath / Swindon

Capital Radio 1973 -

London

Capital Gold 1988 -

AM Split for Capital Radio

CBC [Cardiff Broadcasting Company] 1980 - 1989

Cardiff 1980
Newport 1983

Centre Radio 1981 - 1983

Leicester

Chiltern Radio 1981 -

Luton 1981 - , Bedford 1982 - .

Radio City 1975 -

Liverpool

Radio Clyde 1973 -

Glasgow

County Sound Radio 1983 -

Guilford

CN.FM 1989 -

Cambridge

Devonair Radio 1980 -

Exeter 1980 - , Torbay 1980 - .

Downtown Radio 1976 -

Greater Belfast 1976 - , Londonderry & Limavady 1986 - , Enniskillen & Omagh 1987 - .

Essex Radio 1981 -

Southend 1981 - , Chelmsford 1981 - .

Radio Forth 1975 -

Edinburgh

Fox FM 1989 -

Oxford 1989

Great North Radio 1989 -

AM split of Metro Radio

Gold AM 1988 -

AM Split of Ocean Sound 1988

GWR Radio 1985 -

Merger of Radio West and Wiltshire Sound

Gwent Broadcasting 1983 - 1986

Newport

Radio Hallam 1974 -

Sheffield & Rotherham 1974 - , Barnsley and Doncaster 1985 -

Hereward Radio 1980 -

Peterborough

Horizon Radio 1989 -

Milton Keynes 1989 -

Invicta Radio 1984 -

Maidstone & Medway?East Kent

Invicta Supergold 1989 -

AM split for Invicta

LBC [London Broadcasting Company] 1973 -

London

Leicester Sound 1984 -

Leicester

The Light FM 1987 – 1988

Winchester – Renamed Ocean FM in 1988

London Greek Radio (LGR) 1989 -

London

Marcher Sound 1983 -

Wrexham & Deeside

Marcher Gold 1989

AM split for Marcher Sound

Mercia Sound 1980 -

Coventry

Radio Mercury 1984 -

Reigate and Crawley

Metro Radio 1974 -

Tyne and Wear

MFM 1989 -

FM split for Marcher Sound

Moray Firth Radio 1982 -

Inverness

Network East Kent 1984 - 1984

Canterbury

Northants 96 1986 -

Northhampton

Northdown Radio 1984 -1984

Maidstone & Medway – Became Invicta

NorthSide Sound 1982 - 1984

Londonderry

NorthSound Radio 1981 -

Aberdeen

Ocean Sound 1986 -

Portsmouth/Southampton 1986 - , Winchester 1987 - .

Orchard FM 1989 -

Taunton

Radio Orwell 1975 -

Ipswich

Pennine Radio 1973 -

Bradford 1973 - , Huddersfield & Halifax 1984 - .

Piccadilly Radio 1974 -

Manchester

Piccadilly Key 103 FM 1988 -

FM Split for Piccadilly 1988

Piccadilly Gold 1152 1988 -

AM Split for Piccadilly 1988

Plymouth Sound 1985 -

Plymouth

Power FM 1988 -

Southampton FM Split of Ocean Sound 1988

Red Dragon Radio 1989 -

Takeover of CBC in 1989

Red Rose Radio 1982 -

Preston and Blackpool

Saxon Radio 1982 -

Bury St. Edmunds

Severn Sound 1980 -

Gloucester & Cheltenham

Signal Radio 1983 -

Stoke-on-Trent

Southern Sound Radio 1983 -

Brighton 1983, Eastbourne 1989

Sunrise Radio 1989 -

Bradford

Swansea Sound 1974 -

Swansea

Radio Tay 1980 -

Dundee 1980 - , Perth 1980 - .

Radio Tees 1975 -

Teeside

TFM 198?

FM split for Radio Tees

Radio Trent 1975 -

Nottingham 1975 - , Derby 1987 - .

Two Counties Radio [2CR] 1980 -

Bournemouth

Radio 210 1976 -

Reading 1976 - , Basingstoke & Andover 1987- .

Radio Victory 1975 - 1986

Portsmouth

Viking Radio 1984 -

Humberside

Radio WABC 1989 -

AM Split for Beacon Radio

Radio West 1981 - 1985

Bristol

West Sound 1981 -

Ayr

Wiltshire Radio 1982 - 198

Swindon/West Wiltshire

Radio Wyvern 1982 -

Herford/Worcester

XTRA AM 1989 -

AM Split for BRMB and Mercia

Source: Independent Broadcasting Authority. IBA Yearbooks. London : IBA 1980 - 1989.

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