Dance Band Days


The Dance Band Days was a weekly half hour programme on BBC radio of predominantly British dance band recordings of the 1920s to early 1940s. It ran from 1969 to 1998 and was introduced, until his death, by Alan Dell with Malcolm Laycock taking over until the programme ended when its content was subsumed in Sunday Night at 10, a late night programme on Radio 2 on Sunday evenings, presented by Malcolm Laycock, although the Dance Bands part of the programme was discontinued in 2008. The programmes were recorded off-air from FM broadcasts.