BBC Radio 3 3 audiences wanted programmes that challenged and inspired. the regular presenter of "Record Review" is Andrew McGregor. "Jazz Record Requests" was the first weekly jazz programme on the Third Programme. First presented by the jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton, the 30-minute programme was launched in December 1964 and is still running. Now an hour long, it is still broadcast on Saturday, usually in the late afternoon. Presenters on Radio 3 have included Steve Race, Peter Clayton, Charles Fox and Geoffrey Smith. Alyn Shipton became the presenter in May 2012. "Pied Piper" was an iconic children's programme, presented by early music specialist,
BBC Radio Bristol for 12 years, but was taken off air in August 2018 after announcing his intention to stand for parliament. In November 2008, BBC Radio Bristol presenter Sam Mason was dismissed following an incident in which she made alleged racist remarks made in an off-air phone conversation during a weekday afternoon show. Whilst phoning a taxi firm in order to send her 14-year-old daughter from Mason's Clifton home to her grandparents' home, she was said to have asked the company not to send an Asian driver. BBC Radio Bristol BBC Radio Bristol is the BBC Local Radio service for the English