Greatest Hits Radio 60s

Greatest Hits Radio 60s revisits popular music from the 1960s. It extends the Greatest Hits Radio family into an earlier decade than the main station's usual seventies, eighties and nineties focus. The programme centres on familiar recordings from a period when beat groups, soul and melodic pop helped reshape the sound of radio.

The attraction is the decade's variety within a clear time frame. Bright, concise pop records can sit alongside stronger rhythm-and-blues influences and more reflective songs. The selection is intended for listeners who want sixties music to continue beyond the occasional classic in a broader oldies programme.

Richard Allinson starts the day with a postbag and the 60s Selector, while Alex Lester's programme includes Lester's 60s Library. Rossie contributes another daytime show, and The Paul Gambaccini Hour offers his choices from the period. The channel also carries PopMaster and a 60s Jukebox strand featuring Ken Bruce's Secret Sixties. These programmes give the station its own mixture of presentation, musical memory and continuous selections, with the decade remaining the thread through the different voices. Joanna Lumley is also part of the channel's on-air identity.

Bauer Media Audio UK offers the station as a separate national service. Its schedule includes music-led listening, with the sixties remaining the common thread throughout. For people returning to that era or exploring it for the first time, the station provides a sustained introduction to its best-known popular sounds.