Radio 1’s dedicated news programme Newsbeat celebrates its 40th birthday today. There’s a including a clip of one of the first broadcasts from September 1973. There’s also a handful of archived on if you're after a skip down memory lane.
Newsbeat is an important part of Radio 1’s remit as stated in the station’s service licence. A PDF of the service licence is available on the .Μύ
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