Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego

The latter category included domestic rock artists, electronic music, sung poetry and many other genres looked down upon by the authorities.

The first list was compiled and aired by Marek Niedźwiecki on 24 April 1982, with the top three songs being "I'll Find My Way Home" by Jon and Vangelis, "O!

Since the late 1980s every weekly broadcast is accompanied by a short correspondence from the Netherlands (by Alina Dragan) and the United States (Wojciech Żórniak, Voice of America), with reports on the latest European Hot 100 Singles, Dutch Top 40 and the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

The lower, for ranks between 31 and 50 (As of 2013[update]), are called the waiting room (Polish: poczekalnia).

Songs in the waiting room are traditionally not aired in full and are often only mentioned by their title and the chart rank during the weekly broadcast.

While most LP3 editions are broadcast from the Radio 3 studio in Warsaw, some are broadcast from mobile studios set up in various parts of Poland, such as this 2 September 2011 (list #1544) studio set up aboard Dar Pomorza tall ship.
Marek Niedźwiecki , the long-term host of LP3