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Overview of the events of 1963 in British radio
This is a list of events from British radio in 1963.
6 January –
Alan Freeman takes over as presenter of
Pick of the Pops ; he remains with the programme until the BBC ceases to broadcast it in 1972, and then with revivals.
19 February – Actress Ellis Powell is dismissed from the leading role of Mrs Dale in the
BBC Light Programme soap opera
The Dales , which she has played since the first episode as Mrs Dale's Diary in 1948, and it is given to former musical actress
Jessie Matthews ; Powell dies 3 months later aged 57.
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30 July – Mahler's
Second Symphony (1895) gets its first performance at the
BBC Proms , and proves so popular that conductor
Leopold Stokowski and the
London Symphony Orchestra repeat the whole of the final movement as an encore.
29 September–December – Don Moss joins Alan Freeman to host Pick of the Pops .
23 November – 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of the
British Forces Broadcasting Service .
Martin Esslin is appointed Head of Radio Drama at the BBC, a position he holds until 1977.
Richard Imison is appointed Script Editor for BBC Radio Drama, a position he holds until 1991.
Continuing radio programmes
6 January –
Julian Worricker , radio and television journalist
14 January –
Adjoa Andoh , film, television, stage and radio actress
4 April –
Graham Norton , Irish actor, comedian, television presenter, columnist and broadcaster
2 May –
Esther Freud , novelist and broadcaster
19 May –
Michael Symmons Roberts , poet and radio dramatist
20 May –
Jenny Funnell , radio and television actress
26 May –
Simon Armitage , poet laureate and broadcaster
June –
Philip Middlemiss , radio and television actor
7 June –
Lesley Douglas , BBC radio executive, Controller of
Radio 2 and
6 Music from 2004–2008
2 July –
Mark Kermode , film critic
30 October –
Wendy Robbins , radio and television presenter and producer
3 November –
Ian Wright , footballer and radio and television presenter
28 November –
Armando Iannucci , Scottish broadcast and film writer-producer and presenter
Unknown
^ Thornton, Michael (1975). Jessie Matthews: A Biography . London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon.
ISBN
0246108010 .