Radio ROKiT - Old Time Gold

Old Time Gold takes a mixed approach to the ROKiT archive. Its schedule combines British and American comedy with criminal investigations, dramatic stories and retrospective radio material. The channel is organised around the breadth of older broadcasting, allowing different subjects and presentation styles to meet within one service.

A continuing sitcom can be followed by a more tense story or a programme looking back at radio itself. That gives the listening session changes in both mood and purpose. The range also crosses periods, so the Old Time identity describes an interest in preserved entertainment rather than a strict promise that every recording belongs to one decade.

The Fred Allen Show and the Charlotte Greenwood Show share the running order with Dad's Army and King Street Junior. Tales of the Texas Rangers and Gangbusters provide investigations, while Movietown Radio Theater adds dramatic performances. News Huddlines and It's Been a Bad Week introduce topical comedy from later years, and The Big Broadcast revisits earlier radio material. That combination makes the channel a cross-period archive in which both preserved programmes and later retrospective entertainment have a place.

The timetable offers a way to find particular programmes within this broad selection. Old Time Gold is useful for listeners who want the variety of an archive without choosing a highly specialised comedy or drama channel first. Its mixture makes the contrasting ways in which radio has entertained an audience part of the experience.