Out This Week

Out This Week is a pioneering LGBT+ weekly news programme that ran on BBC Radio 5Live for five years from 2 April 1994 - 1999,^[1] with as one of its founder/presenters Nigel Wrench^[2] and also featuring Justine Buchanan, Alison Hennegan^{[citation needed]} and latterly Rebecca Sandles. Wrench and producer David Cook won a Sony Radio Award^[3][4] in 1995 for a landmark programme presented live from New York about Stonewall 25.^[5][6] Shortly after the award, the BBC extended their run to a full year.^[7]

1. ^ "Lesbian and gay radio launch". The Guardian. 1994-03-15. ISSN 0261-3077. ProQuest 293429388. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
2. ^ "London Bridges". POZ. 1996-08-01. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
3. ^ "LGBT+ Timeline". Retrieved 2024-01-11.
4. ^ "The ARIAS". Radio Academy. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
5. ^ https://lavendermagazine.com/our-affairs/causes/leather-life-stonewall-25-memories/
6. ^ "Radio 5 Live - Listen Live - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
7. ^ Sanderson, Terry (1995-06-12). "Gay broadcasting: Out and about Gay Media: With an unprecedented batch of gay radio and television on the way, we look at gay broadcasting, upheavals in the gay press". The Guardian. p. 016. ISSN 0261-3077. ProQuest 294894367. Retrieved 2024-01-11.

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