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3 unusual facts about BBC Sussex


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In common with much of the BBC's early local radio output, Radio Brighton broadcast only for limited daytime hours in its early years, relying on Radio 2 and Radio 4 for a sustaining service, but building to a full daytime service by the mid-1970s.

He was one of two BBC journalists who defied the Corporation's wishes and stayed to broadcast from Baghdad during the Gulf war.

Des Lynam and Kate Adie both began their careers at BBC Radio Brighton, as did BBC TV News Special Reporter Gavin Hewitt and presenter of Radio 4’s ‘Checkup’ Barbara Myers.



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