LBC was the first legal commercial radio station in mainland Britain and had a franchise, later called a licence, to broadcast to London from October 1973 until September 1994, when the Radio Authority did not renew the license. It had a chequered and often difficult history, but through it all pioneered commercial speech radio in Britain and at times made significant amounts of money.

LBC Opening 8th October 1973
Greeting from political party leaders
How to find LBC on the dial

I hope that these pages will grow into a large section, however at present I have pages on the final format of the station with separate services on AM and FM - the LBC Newstalk schedule and the London Talkback Radio schedule from 1993 with a RealAudio promotion for each programme and a small number of other clips from programmes around that time. There's also a section on the ill-fated LBC Crown FM.

I started to work at LBC as a freelance from late 1988 until July 1994, when I was on the full time staff. It spanned an interesting era from the days of a single "LBC" station on both frequencies to the loss of the Radio Authority license.

If you have any photos or shortish recordings of LBC that I can include on the site please get in touch.

AM programme December 1987

All of the recordings are in RealAudio format and denoted by the symbol .

A player can be downloaded from the Real Networks site.