1967 in British radio

Events

January

• No events

  February

• No events

  March

• Disc jockey John Ravenscroft returns to the UK from California, joins the offshore 'pirate radio' station Wonderful Radio London and adopts the name John Peel.

  April

• No events

  May

• John Peel's after-midnight show on pirate station Radio London becomes The Perfumed Garden and, contrary to the station's daytime "Fab 40" playlist, he introduces his eclectic mix of folk, blues, psychedelic and progressive rock which continues until the station is forced off the air in August and Peel moves to BBC Radio 1.

  June

• No events

  July

• No events

  August

• 14 August – The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act is passed, making it an offense to advertise or supply an offshore radio station from the UK. This results in the closure of all of Britain's offshore pirate radio stations with the exception of Radio Caroline, which moves its supply operation to the Netherlands.

  September

• 17 September – First broadcast of The World This Weekend on the BBC Home Service.
• 30 September – BBC Radio completely restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new national pop station Radio 1 and middle of the road Radio 2; the cultural Third Programme is rebranded as Radio 3; and the primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4. Radio 1 is launched at 7:00 am with Tony Blackburn's Daily Disc Delivery show and the first track played is The Move's "Flowers in the Rain".

  October

• 1 October – The first Peel Session for BBC Radio 1 takes place, featuring psychedelic rock band Tomorrow.

  November

• 8 November – BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.

  December

• 22 December – Panel game Just a Minute is first aired on Radio 4 with Nicholas Parsons as chairman ; Parsons continues to chair the show until shortly before his death in 2020.

  Unknown

• University Radio York obtains a testing and development licence as "Radio Heslington"; it becomes the United Kingdom's second student radio station, and also the country's first independent radio station.

  Station debuts

• 30 September –
• *BBC Radio 1
• *BBC Radio 2
• *BBC Radio 3
• *BBC Radio 4
• 8 November – BBC Radio Leicester
• 15 November – BBC Radio Sheffield
• 22 November – BBC Radio Merseyside
• Unknown – University Radio York

  Closing this year

• 14 August – Wonderful Radio London

  Programme debuts

• May – The Perfumed Garden on Radio London
• 1 October – The Official Chart on BBC Radio 2
• 22 December – Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4

  Continuing programmes

1940s

• Sunday Half Hour
• Desert Island Discs
• Down Your Way
• Letter from America
• Woman's Hour
• A Book at Bedtime

  1950s

• The Archers
• The Today Programme
• The Navy Lark
• Sing Something Simple
• Your Hundred Best Tunes

  1960s

• Farming Today
• The Men from the Ministry
• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
• Petticoat Line
• Round the Horne
• The Embassy Lark
• The World at One

  Ending this year

• August – The Perfumed Garden
• September – Easy Beat

  Births

• 7 January – Mark Lamarr, comedian and radio and television presenter
• 2 February – Tushar Makwana, radio presenter
• 1 March – Jakki Brambles, English television and radio presenter and reporter
• 16 April – Grooverider, drum and bass DJ
• Unknown – Jamie Owen, Welsh radio and television presenter

  Deaths

• 1 June – Derek McCulloch, children's radio presenter
• Unknown – Douglas Ritchie, radio news editor and wartime propaganda broadcaster