Charity launches a radio station

A new radio station with an old name, The Wireless , was launched this week. Aimed at people of 55 and over, it has lined up a host of TV and radio veterans to present its programmes. They include David Hamilton, Graham Dene, Diana Moran and Sheila Tracy. And the best-known of them all has been lured out of retirement - the former newsreader Martyn Lewis of "good news" fame. The "radio for grown-ups" is an initiative by the charity Age UK. It is available on DAB in London and Yorkshire and elsewhere online here on the Age UK website. It provide programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with a range of content — music, current affairs, discussions and documentaries. Read more about it in my London Evening Standard column today .