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Radio

How Radio 5 Live transformed the airwaves

A 20th-anniversary celebration. Plus: the joy of the 15-minute radio short

29 March 2014

9:00 AM

29 March 2014

9:00 AM

It’s amazing to think that it’s 20 years since the launch of Radio 5 Live. But it was bright and early on the morning of 28 March 1994 (long before Princess Diana’s death, 9/11, the Iraq war, the London bombs, the Asian tsunami, the ‘Arab spring’) that Jane Garvey announced, ‘Welcome to a new network.’

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