20 November 2022

Sunday 20 November

2022-11-20

TV

 * BBC One
 * 3.00 pm FIFA World Cup 2022 - Gary Lineker introduces live coverage of the opening game of this year’s World Cup, with hosts Qatar taking on Ecuador in the first of 64 matches over the next month.

Radio

 * Boom Radio celebrates 70 years of the UK singles chart (8 hour broadcast - available online here).
 * Boom Radio commemorates the role the chart played in our lives
 * 12pm-1pm John Peters plays the chart from this week in 1967 – Voted by you the most popular year for music.
 * 1pm-2pm John Peters plays the first ever music chart – from 1952! It was a Top 12 – but with some joint placings!
 * 2pm-4pm Simon Bates plays the biggest Number Ones from each year, kicking off in 1958 and working through the years. Simon hosted the chart on the BBC from 1978-79 and again in 1984.
 * 4pm-6pm Mike Read plays One Hit Wonders – Or Were They? Aside from his radio, Mike was one of the founder editors of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles
 * 6pm-7pm Kid Jensen – the host of commercial radio’s first official chart ‘the Network Chart’ - returns to play the songs that just missed out on the treasured Number One position
 * 7pm-8pm Mike Wyer with Chart Novelties. The daft songs that have graced the upper ranks of the sales chart over the years