This is a list of events in British radio during 1981.
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- October – BBC Radio Deeside is expanded to cover all of north east Wales and is renamed BBC Radio Clwyd
- 3 October – Kenny Everett rejoins the BBC to present a Saturday morning programme.
- 4 October – The first edition of All Time Greats, presented by Desmond Carrington, is broadcast on BBC Radio 2.[5] The programme, broadcast on Sunday lunchtimes, remains on air until the late 2000s.
- 6-31 October – For four weeks, Radio 2’s overnight show, You and the Night and the Music, is replaced by 2’s Company with features a blend of music, drama, talks and documentaries from all the radio networks.
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- 7 January – Alvar Liddell, 72, BBC Radio announcer and newsreader
- 10 February – Leonard Plugge, 91, commercial radio promoter and politician
- 15 March – Derek Roy, 58, comedian
- 13 April – Gwyn Thomas, 67, Welsh writer and broadcaster
- 23 September – Sam Costa, 71, crooner, voice actor and disc jockey
- 30 November – Val Gielgud, 81, pioneer director of broadcast drama