Songs of Praise: Queen congratulates BBC show on 60th anniversary
The world longest-running religious TV show has been a stalwart of the Sunday schedules since 1961. …
Mr Baverstock suggested to Stuart Hood, then director of BBC TV programmes, that something similar might suit the designated “closed period”, between 18.15-19.25 on a Sunday evening, which was – at the time – given over, by law, to religious programmes.