Monday Night at Eight
radio show
Monday Night at Eight was a weekly BBC radio magazine and variety programme that was broadcast live on the BBC Home Service, with Ronnie Waldman doing the interviews and announcements, produced by Harry S. Pepper.
The programme was launched in April 1937 on the BBC National Programme under the title Monday Night at Seven, running from 7pm to 8pm. In October 1939 it was changed to "Monday Night at Eight", with the start time being put back to 8pm and the show ran in this time slot until 1948. The change of time was due to longer working hours during World War II, thus enabling more people to listen.
The formats for both programmes were similar. The first part consisted of interviews of all types of people; then there was a musical break, and the final part was a radio detective play. Initially it was Inspector Hornleigh Investigates, but in 1942 a new series called Dr Morelle was introduced. Another feature that was started in Monday Night at Eight was Puzzle Corner, also used in later programmes, and the weekly 'Deliberate Mistake'. Popular comedians Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch contributed "Chestnut Corner". One weekly comedy sketch was "The Dooms".
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