The history of the Radio lIcence in the UK was produced by Mark Jones.

If you have any comments, or radio licences, please get in touch.

I receive many enquiries about the need for a "licence" to use a radio in a shop or factory. Any location or premises, outside of home, where music is played from clubs to concert halls, from discos to dentists’ waiting rooms and from trains to takeaways needs a MCPS/PRS Music Licence for the public performance of copyright music.This is totally unrelated to the UK TV (Radio) licence.

If you need information on this please look at
http://www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/playingbroadcastingonline/music_for_businesses/Pages/default.aspx  

You can also see a BBC news report on this issue here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7459550.stm