This is a list of events from British radio in 1961.
Events
Programme debuts
Continuing radio programmes
1940s
1950s
1960s
Ending this year
Births
- 1 January â Fiona Phillips, radio and television presenter
- 3 January â Justin Webb, journalist and presenter on Today
- 3 March â Paul Baskerville, disc jockey
- 10 April â Nicky Campbell, Scottish-born broadcast presenter
- 14 May â David Quantick, comedy writer, music journalist and radio broadcaster
- 24 June â David Tyler, broadcast comedy producer
- 28 June â Mark Goodier, disc jockey
- 10 July â Marc Riley, disc jockey
- 17 July â Jeremy Hardy, comedian (died 2019)
- 22 July â Carolyn Quinn, journalist and presenter on PM
- 27 June â Lynn Parsons, disc jockey
- 25 October â Pat Sharp, radio and television presenter
- October â Clive Coleman, barrister, legal journalist and sitcom writer
- Unknown
- Robin Brooks, radio dramatist
- Corrie Corfield, newsreader
- Martin Hyder, comedy actor
Deaths
See also
References