📻 'Junior Choice' Saturday 30 September 1967 - BBCR1 & BBCR2: 8:32 The first edition of 'Junior Choice' - simultaneously broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and 2 goes to air. Leslie Crowther is the show's first host, but after four weeks Crowther was replaced by Paddy Feeny. Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart was in the saddle from February 1968 till 1980 when he handed the mantle to broadcasting legend Tony Blackburn. With the birth of Radio 1 this same day, the BBC took a huge leap forward. A good couple of years be