* November 8 – The BBC's first local radio station ( BBC Radio Leicester ) is launched.

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* Alastair Yates, a presenter on BBC News and BBC World News went to Manor House School, Ashby and his farming family still live in the town ( he was at BBC Radio Leicester in the mid-1970s )

* BBC Leicester – Loughborough University: Educating for 100 years

A BBC report on 18 October 2006 suggested that the airport might change its name again, and the eventual change, to East Midlands Airport: Nottingham, Leicester, Derby came into effect on 8 December 2006, despite the city of Leicester being furthest away from the airport.

It was the birthplace of George Davenport, a notorious highwayman ; Abigail Herrick, the mother of Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels ; former Leicester Tigers and England scrum-half Harry Ellis who attended Bushloe High School ; and former Leicester Sound and BBC Radio Leicester presenter, Mark Hayman.

The park is sometimes used as a venue for outdoor events-in recent years these have included BBC Radio 1's One Big Sunday, the Leicester Caribbean Carnival, and Leicester Pride.

The stations were launched progressively starting with BBC Radio Leicester on 8 November 1967 with the last station to launch being the ill fated BBC Dorset FM on 26 April 1993.

* BBC Radio Leicester

BBC Radio Leicester is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Leicestershire and Rutland.

The station broadcasts from studios in Leicester on 104. 9 FM, on DAB, and via the BBC iPlayer.

BBC Radio Leicester was the first of the new breed of BBC Local Radio stations introduced to the English mainland in the 1960s.

The station's former 837 kHz medium wave frequency from the Freeman's Common transmitter near the University of Leicester is now used by the BBC Asian Network which originated in Leicester but is now a national network delivered via DAB, digital satellite, Freeview and other systems across the UK and beyond.

The news room for BBC Asian Network is located at 9 St Nicholas Place, home of BBC Radio Leicester.

* 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

* BBC, South East Wales – Feature on Abergavenny

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

On 21 April 2008, BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News on the channel itself – but is referred to as the BBC News Channel on other BBC services.

The BBC News Channel moved from the Studio N8 set ( now home to BBC World News ) to what was the home of the national news in Studio N6, allowing the Channel to share its set with the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Ten – with other bulletins moving to studio TC7.

Graphics and titles were developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and were gradually rolled out across the whole of BBC News, including a similar design for regional news starting with Newsroom South East and the three BBC Nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The music was revised completely but the biggest change came in the footage used – reflecting the methods and nature of newsgathering, while a strong emphasis was placed on the BBC logo itself.

He also hosted six series of Clive Anderson's Chat Room on BBC Radio 2 from 2004 – 2009.

* Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood and other plays ( Naxos Audiobooks NA288712 – 2008 ) ( originally BBC – 1954 )

In 2006 the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office ( 1974 – 76 ).

* BBC History – The Easter Rising

Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.

* 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the " BBC pips ".

* 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R. U. R., that coined the term " robot ".

Today, the broadcaster's online video player, the BBC iPlayer, reflects the branding legacy by retaining an i-prefix in its branding.

It is also distinguished from the original BBC TV series by the fact that many more contestants ' specialist subjects come from popular culture, which probably reflects cultural changes in the British middle classes in recent years.

This is considerably more than most other BBC local radio stations and reflects London's large number of sporting teams and events.

This time slot is considerably more than most other BBC local radio stations and reflects London's large number of sporting teams and events.

BBC Broadcasting House ( 1932 ) reflects Nash's portico with its quadrant-curved corner.

The BBC refused Ball's suggestion, responding in a statement: " This speech clearly reflects BSkyB's view that programmes are merely a commodity to be bought and sold.

Kneale had fourteen years earlier adapted George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as a classic and controversial BBC broadcast and the play reflects much of Kneale's assimilation of Orwell's concern about the power of the media and Kneale's experience of the evolving media industry.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.

* Aquila ( TV series ), a BBC TV production for children based on the Norriss book

Unlike the BBC Micro, the Edge-connector on the rear of the machine exposed almost all the Bus lines, but not all.

Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.

This enabled the Electron to achieve the same functionality as that provided by the Expansion-ROM slot on the bottom-left of the BBC Micro B keyboard.

This behavior was the same as on the BBC Micro.

By providing extra storage this modification also allowed some games and applications intended for the BBC Micro to function on the Electron despite the lack of a native Mode 7.

See also the list of Acorn Electron games for a fairly comprehensive list of games published for the machine and: Category: BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games for a list of games with information on Wikipedia.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

Some of these tracks, including audio of Korner himself, appear on the Hendrix double-CD BBC Sessions, including Korner playing slide guitar on "( I'm Your ) Hoochie Coochie Man ".

Alexis Korner gave one of his last radio interviews to BBC Midlands on the Record Collectors Show with Mike Adams and the Late Chris Savory.

In 1973 he presented a unique 6-part documentary on BBC Radio 1, The Rolling Stones Story, and in 1977 he established a Sunday-night blues and soul show on Radio 1, Alexis Korner's Blues and Soul show, which ran until 1981.

* BBC website on Aberdare