Radio Times

23 March – The BBC regrets that the printers for next week's edition are in short supply, but copies will be available in the , the West of England, North East, and many parts of South and the North of England.

South West

7 April – The BBC expects copies of the magazine will be available in , Northern Ireland and North of England from 16 April, following the print workers in East Kilbride and near Bristol returning to work.

Scotland

4 June – The special issue with the combined England edition, as well as the three constituent nations (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) across throughout the country was used for one week only.

general election

16 July – The magazine was finally returned to the fully-regionalised form with complete details of all for national, regional and local.

BBC television channels and radio stations

10 December – The magazine was printed and published as the single national edition once again, due to a print workers' strike from the previous week.

The first person of to feature on the front cover was the American singer Paul Robeson, in the 535th issue which dated on 29 December 1933.^[25][26]

colour

Following the and Britain's declaration of war with Germany, Radio Times published its supplementary edition on 4 September 1939 (issue number 831A) which depicts this cover showing the BBC's headquarters that include the Union Jack flag within the words "Broadcasting carries on" underneath.

invasion of Poland

Radio Times declared its special '' issue on 31 May 1953 with a record-breaking 9,012,358 copies sold, as well as Eric Fraser's heraldic cover illustration and also made the back page depicted his lion and the unicorn tucking into an advertisement for Bachelors tinned foods. It was the first artwork cover since before World War II by the presses at Waterlow and Sons couldn't print in full colour but the existing technology allowed a yellowish gold tint between the back and front within a red crown motif running across the magazine. Fraser was the revered illustrator who had worked for the publication between 1926 and 1982, until his death on 15 November 1983 at the age of 81. A similar version to this majestic artwork cover designed by Peter Horridge on 2 May 2023, preparing for the next coronation after more than 70 years which include its updated official emblem of the royal cypher within a year in Roman numerals underneath.

Coronation Number

Radio Times celebrated the upcoming Moon landing on 10 July 1969, with this cover bearing the "TARGET MOON" caption at the top of the Saturn V rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center as part of the NASA's Apollo mission.

Apollo 11

During 's 50th anniversary on 1 November 1986, Tony McSweeney's cover illustration depicted a 1930s family living in the shadow of Alexandra Palace somehow watching the opening titles of Nine O'Clock News on a modern colour set.

BBC Television

23 February 1991 saw Radio Times began offering a comprehensive programme schedule guide to BBC, , Channel 4 and various satellite networks (from Friday 1 March) bearing the "If it's on, it's in" tagline, which includes Arnold Schwarzenegger on the cover focusing about the Austrian bodybuilding champion and successfully become the biggest film career in Hollywood. There was also a mixed reaction for the deregulation of television listings had occurred and allow information on all channels to be printed as they showing material by the broadcasters with its other competitors.

ITV

On 26 March 1994, to coincide the relaunch of as 'Five Live' (the new rolling news and sport service which took place on 28 March) within the group consists of Nelson Mandela, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, John Major and Benazir Bhutto to appear on the cover wearing in t-shirts that includes the logo was done by Sven Arnstein, as well as Jones Bloom's electronic retouching but we also told that the sportswear came from Lillywhites and the footwear courtesy of John Lewis.

Radio 5

A special issue for the 50th anniversary of on 3 July 2004, as well as a fold-out cover with BBC news teams (from left to right: Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, Anna Ford, George Alagiah, Sophie Raworth, Dermot Murnaghan, Natasha Kaplinsky, Sian Williams, Darren Jordon and Moira Stuart) was photographed by Andy Earl, and also an accompanying special pull-out supplement within the centre pages.

BBC television news

On 10 February 2007, the second series of , was marked by the Radio Times producing a mock-up of a 1973-style cover promoting the series, placed on page three of the magazine.

Life on Mars

Radio Times reaches its 5,000th edition on 9 May 2020 with excellent lead articles from the support staff and workers of the front line during the COVID-19 pandemic known as the coronavirus disease, and also granted this cover showing the colours of the rainbow which uses acrylic paint in a plain white background.

National Health Service

The region was separated from Northern Ireland on 4 January 1948 who had their own edition.

North of England

The spread of television editions when full listings (with six pages) were not included in all issues between 7 June 1946 and 15 August 1952.

On 8 October 1960, the region was renamed 'Midlands & East Anglia', and the West of England region was also renamed 'South & West'.

Midlands

On 9 February 1964, the launch of in the Welsh edition of Radio Times with its own programme schedule pages from the prominent heading (remained until 1982), without detracting from the service they provided to English viewers on the other side of the Severn Estuary.

BBC Cymru Wales television service

As from 21 March 1964, the previously unmarked region was successfully renamed 'London & South East'. It was later dropped on 25 March 1989 when the 'London' name is no longer used, became known as 'South East', and later reverted to its original name on 23 February 1991.

London

On 29 August 1970, the four regional editions (along the constituent nations) were separated into ten areas, such as the administrative counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (which included the Furness exclave in Lancashire and the district of Sedburgh in the West Riding of Yorkshire) before the creation of a new non-metropolitan county of Cumbria from 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales.

English

Between 1 November 1982 and 22 February 1991, listings were included in the Wales edition known as 'Rhaglenni Cymraeg' (Welsh programmes), while its English language programming were simply billed as 'Rhaglenni Saesneg' with no further detail being given. TV Times included a pull-out supplement Sbec which gave full details on all S4C programming in both languages. From the following week, it also took the billing space by cutting down on the detail in the Channel 4's listings in that edition, and allowing S4C to share some of its space.

S4C

After the of television listings on 1 March 1991, they rebranded the Northern Ireland edition as 'Ulster' (named after the historic province), and started including listings for the Irish state broadcaster's two channels – RTÉ1 and Network 2 – were occupied the lower half of the three columns devoted to UTV's schedules.

deregulation

Radio Times used to have three separate editions for , Grampian and Border (also appearing in the North East edition) while just then after a while they merged back into one Scotland edition from 6 July 1991.

STV

No publication of Radio Times in the as their listing schedules were contained within the South West region when it first appeared in the South edition on 30 March 1991. Channel TV published its own listings magazine, the CTV Times (formerly Channel Viewer) until 25 October of that year.

Channel Islands

The region was absorbed by the North East region on 25 September 1993 became known as 'Yorkshire/Tyne Tees', and also later added the North West region on 7 April 2007.

Yorkshire

The exception to this process of merging is on 31 August 1991, which used to be part of a larger 'Wales/West' (of England), mirroring the HTV area. The region was separated on 16 April 2005 leaving the West of England to join South and South West edition. The two regional editions of London and East Anglia were merged on the same date.

Wales

On 5 November 2001, launches as the digital-only service in Wales used for weekday evenings from 8.30pm to 10.00pm, within BBC2's listings in the normal column is mainly split vertically in two to cover both the analogue and digital services. The digital-only service was ceased on 2 January 2009 as part of the digital switchover, and reverts to the normal service with less frequent regional programmes as the arrangement on analogue broadcasts.

BBC 2W

On 25 August 2007, the Midlands and London/Anglia regions were merged.

On 24 February 2019, Radio Times introduces the , a new autonomous service that broadcasts an nightly line-up of entirely Scottish-related programming from 7.00pm to midnight replacing the Scotland's version of BBC2 after 53 years, and the listings were occupied by BBC4 at the bottom on the right page.

BBC Scotland television channel

– an annual listing charted the three different areas of British media (include TV comedy, TV drama and radio) from January 2003 to June 2005

Most Powerful People

– a digital programme guide which offers full television listings and synopses throughout 14 days provided by Inview Technology

Radio Times Extra

– an annual listing featuring television talents since 2017

TV 100

Tony Currie, The Radio Times Story (2001, Kelly Publications)  1-903053-09-9

ISBN

David Driver, The Art of Radio Times: The First Sixty Years (1981)

Martin Baker, The Art of Radio Times: A Golden Age of British Illustration  978-1854441713

ISBN

R.D. Usherwood, Drawing for Radio Times (1961, Bodley Head)

Official website

BBC – History of the Radio Times

with gallery

Radio programme about cover art

A selection of

Vintage Radio Times covers

- Radio Times listings from 1923 to 2009

BBC Genome

of years 1923 to 1930 and 1936 on the website of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor de Historie van de Radio

Digitized versions