Roger Moffat - Light Programme End + Hallam

It's good to be on-air when things are happening around you. There were hundreds of nightly closedowns from the BBC Light Programme; but this was the most poignant. Its last.

As the BBC prepared to number its networks in 1967, the Light Programme split into Radio 2, and a part time Radio 1, It was left to announcer Roger Moffat do the honours and read the peaceful last rites of a service which had taken us from War to flower power.

Roger was time-served at Radio Luxembourg and, most notably, the BBC, before moving to become part of the accomplished launch team at Radio Hallam in Sheffield. The station, whilst conservative by nature, largely allowed Roger freedom to be fairly outspoken when the mood took him; and it is for that he is still most fondly remembered. He hosted mid mornings at Hallam for seven years.

Roger Moffat died in December 1986 at the age of 59.