High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Radio 1 Roadshow was an annual summer event hosted and broadcast by BBC Radio 1 from the 1970s through to the 1990s. The roadshow enjoyed three decades of live broadcasts from beach resorts around the UK. The curtain was brought down on the summer roadshows on Monday 13 March 2000, when the BBC replaced them with a series of one-day pop festivals in cities around the UK.