This is a list of events in British radio during 2013.

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June

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  • 3 June – The BBC issues an apology after an edition of Radio 5 Live's Fighting Talk featured a debate on whether sports presenter Clare Balding, who is gay, could be "cured" of her sexuality.[49]
  • 5 June
    • Ofcom awards five new community radio licences for stations in Northern Ireland.[50]
    • Health and beauty retail chain Superdrug launches an in-store radio station.[51]
  • 12 June – Mayor of London Boris Johnson will join LBC to host a monthly phone-in show, it is confirmed.[52]
  • 14 June – Kerrang! 105.2's final day of broadcasting on FM in the West Midlands. The 105.2 frequency is taken over by Planet Rock simulcasting from London. Kerrang! continues on DAB, but with content aired from London from 17 June.[53]

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August

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  • 4 August – David Jacobs presents the final edition of Radio 2's The David Jacobs Collection after fifteen years. He is stepping down from the role for health reasons.[59][60]
  • 8 August – Smooth Radio hires Andi Peters to present a Sunday lunchtime show.[61]
  • 13 August – Sony end their sponsorship agreement with the Radio Academy Awards.[62]
  • 27 August – The MXR regional digital radio multiplex for the West Midlands is switched off after 12 years on air.[63]
  • 28 August
    • Ofcom finds Liverpool's Radio City 96.7 in breach of broadcasting rules after a listener complained about a feature called Neil or No Neil in which presenter Dave Kelly phones numbers in the United States to ask if there is anyone there named Neil.[64]
    • A contemporary recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 speech "I Have a Dream" is aired by Radio 4 and the BBC World Service to make its 50th anniversary.[65]

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  • 3 September – It is reported that the actress Naomi Watts walked out of a radio interview with Simon Mayo because she was uncomfortable with him asking her about her portrayal of Diana, Princess of Wales in the biopic, Diana.[66]
  • 25 September – A Radio 4 news item about a bondage workshop at a village hall becomes an internet hit.[67]
  • 28 September
    • Former BBC Radio 4 newsreader, now Classic FM presenter, Charlotte Green makes her debut reading the classified football results on BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Service.[68] Her appointment was announced on 6 August.[69]
    • Radio 3 announces a raft of new weekend programmes. They include a new concert series Live in Concert, a new film music programme called Sound of Cinema, a chance to hear highlights of the weekday lunchtime concerts, consistent times for the station's jazz programming and a new Monday night slot for Opera on 3.[70]
  • 30 September – Radio 2 overhauls its schedule.[71]

October

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  • 1 October – Smooth Radio is moved to Global Radio's Leicester Square headquarters in London and given a makeover.[72]
  • 3 October – Global Radio announces that Smooth 70s will close less than a week after Smooth programming moved to its London headquarters.[73]
  • 5 October – Sara Cox becomes a regular presenter on Radio 2 with Sounds of the 80s, a new programme dedicated to hits of the 80s.[71]
  • 6 October – Actress Tina Hobley begins presenting a Sunday Morning show on Smooth Radio.[72]
  • 7 October
    • Choice FM is rebranded as Capital Xtra.[74]
    • London-based digital station IBC Tamil is found in breach of Ofcom licence conditions following a complaint about a "highly partial" and unreliable news item.[75]
  • 17 October
  • 18 October – Two digital transmitters are switched on in Gloucestershire, allowing DAB broadcasting to begin in the county.[79]
  • 25 October – The BBC hosts 100 Women, a day of debate and discussion across radio, television and online featuring a hundred women from around the world.
  • 27 October – As the clocks go back an hour at the end of British Summer Time, a glitch at Radio 2 sees the second hour of Bob Harris's late night/early morning show being simultaneously aired with another segment of the show.[80]

November

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  • 1 November – Broadcasting of Paul Gambaccini's America's Greatest Hits is suspended from its Saturday night slot on Radio 2 after the presenter is arrested as part of the Operation Yewtree investigation. Gambaccini himself takes the decision not to go on air following media interest in his arrest.[81][82] He also steps down temporarily as host of Radio 4's music quiz Counterpoint. A year later, it is announced that no charges will be brought against Gambaccini and he much later receives damages from the Crown Prosecution Service.
  • 5 November – Internet station Solid Gold Gem celebrates a year on air. The station hires American presenter Ted Bradford to present a one-off weekend show to mark the occasion.[83]
  • 15 November – Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Radio 3 Breakfast for the final time. She leaves the show to become presenter of Radio 3's Wigmore Hall lunchtime concerts and to present Sunday afternoon programme The Choir. She is replaced on 2 December by weekend breakfast presenter Clemency Burton-Hill.[84]
  • 28 November – A BBC local radio guest in the North West who claims to have been a disc jockey on Radio Caroline North during the 1960s is challenged as a fake during an on-air interview.[85]
  • 29 November – Robbie Vincent announces he will leave Jazz FM. His final show airs on Sunday 1 December.[86]

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Date Station Debut(s)
25 March NME Radio[91] 2008
30 July Yorkshire Radio 2006
August Smash Hits Radio 2002
6 October Smooth 70s 2011

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