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The first edition of Later... with Jools Holland aired on 8 October 1992. It featured The Neville Brothers, The Christians and D-Influence. Each week several bands from across the spectrum of popular music crammed into the studio, and performed live. It began life as one strand of the arts magazine The Late Show, but outlived and outgrew it, and is still going strong 20 years later.

Jools Holland was a musician who had proved to be a natural presenter on Channel 4's pioneering music show The Tube. He brought his relaxed style to Later, either accompanying the guests on boogie-woogie piano, or leading everybody in a loose jam at the start of the show. Producer Mark Cooper ensured that the programme featured a wide range of musical styles, writing "it is not intended to be rock or chart orientated, although we do hope to feature some mainstream artists".

Later has added an extra show on Tuesday evenings in 2008, broadcast live after the recording of the main programme, which goes out on Friday. Every New Year the programme celebrates Jools's Annual Hootenanny, which has become an institution and Later... continues to bring familiar and unfamiliar sounds to its loyal audience.