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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Charity launches a radio station

A new radio station with an old name, The Wireless, was launched this week. Aimed at people of 55 and over, it has lined up a host of TV and radio veterans to present its programmes. They include David Hamilton, Graham Dene, Diana Moran and Sheila Tracy.

And the best-known of them all has been lured out of retirement - the former newsreader Martyn Lewis of "good news" fame.

The "radio for grown-ups" is an initiative by the charity Age UK. It is available on DAB in London and Yorkshire and elsewhere online here on the Age UK website.

It provide programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with a range of content — music, current affairs, discussions and documentaries.

Read more about it in my London Evening Standard column today.

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