Jersey's finance industry featured in a BBC Panorama documentary, titled " Tax me if you can ", broadcast of 2 February 2009.

* September 2 – Under the guidance of Dr Humphry Osmond, Christopher Mayhew ingests 400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride and allows himself to be filmed as part of a Panorama special for BBC TV that was never broadcast.

Paxman's first book, A Higher Form of Killing ( 1982 ), written with then BBC colleague and friend Robert Harris, arose out of an edition of the Panorama programme they had made together on biological and chemical warfare.

To make the television documentary Scientology and Me, the BBC Panorama team spoke to two mothers whose daughters had disconnected, one for nearly seven years.

Hamilton and Howarth were awarded £ 20, 000 each and in the next edition of Panorama on 27 October, the BBC made an unreserved apology.

* Sex Crimes and the Vatican ( 2006 ), documentary filmed for the BBC Panorama Documentary Series that purports to show how the Vatican has used Crimen sollicitationis to silence allegations of sexual abuse by priests.

He told BBC Panorama in 2004 that Defence Intelligence Staff in Whitehall did not have a high degree of confidence any of the facilities identified, targeted and bombed in Operation Desert Fox were active in producing weapons of mass destruction.

Each year 159 hours of current affairs programmes are broadcast on BBC One, including Panorama and Watchdog.

" An opinion poll commissioned by the BBC television programme Panorama in December 1968 found that 8 per cent of immigrants believed that they had been treated worse by white people since Powell's speech, 38 per cent would like to return to their country of origin if offered financial help, 47 per cent supported immigration control, with 30 per cent opposed.

He worked for the BBC until 1999 on programmes including Songs of Praise, Public Eye and Panorama and then he joined ITV, working on special documentary programmes and features for Tonight with Trevor McDonald.

* Transcript of BBC Panorama programme titled ' Collusion ', 23 June 2002

* youtube. com, Richard Dimbleby demonstrates the new BBC Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus in an edition of Panorama in April 1958.

Sweeney alleged that, " While making our BBC Panorama film Scientology and Me I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, denounced as a " bigot " by star Scientologists, brain-washed – that is how it felt to me – in a mock up of a Nazi-style torture chamber and chased round the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers.

After leaving Cambridge, Harris joined the BBC and worked on news and current affairs programes such as Panorama and Newsnight.

*" The Nailbomber ", transcript of BBC Panorama documentary, aired June 30, 2000

The series was considered classified material that was intended for transmission on all television channels only if the government determined that nuclear attack was likely within 72 hours, although recordings were leaked to organisations like CND and press organisations like the BBC, who broadcast it on Panorama as a discussion of public affairs.

The mood was captured on camera by a BBC Panorama camera crew in 1964.

From 1982 – 90, he worked as a researcher and producer for BBC TV News and Current Affairs on the programmes That's Life !, Panorama and Newsnight.

In 1984 Gerry Gable was commissioned by the BBC to produce research for a BBC Panorama programme " Maggie's Militant Tendency ".

Hamilton and Howarth were awarded £ 20, 000 each and in the next edition of Panorama on 27 October, the BBC made an unreserved apology to both.

There are many known cases in which the disabled have been abused by staff of a " care institution ", such as the case revealed in a BBC Panorama programme on a Castlebeck care home ( Winterbourne View ) near Bristol which led to its closure and the suspension and sacking of some of the staff.

In 1997, Hewitt wrote and presented the BBC One tribute to Princess Diana and in 1998 made Charles: A Life in Waiting-a portrait of Prince Charles at 50 for Panorama and the US Arts and Entertainment channel.

By the early 1980s she had become a producer on the BBC's flagship current affairs series Panorama, before she left the staff of the BBC to join Thames Television's This Week, broadcast on the rival ITV network.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

In 1963 the BBC paid £ 65 for the radio play The Ruffian on the Stair broadcast on 31 August 1964.

In 1964, the BBC filmed a 6-episode TV adaptation under the title Smuggler's Bay, starring future Doctor Who stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton as John Trenchard and Ratsey, respectively.

After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

Two series were made in 1963 and 1964 and ( presumably because it was shot on 35mm film rather than video ) the entire series has reportedly been preserved in the BBC archives.

When Beyond Our Ken came to an end in 1964, the BBC commissioned a replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

He is perhaps best known as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), its more famous successor Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ) and the short-lived Stop Messing About ( 1969 – 1970 ), where his ' BBC accent ' was used to comic effect.

This was followed by a 1964 dramatision of The Caves of Steel for the BBC series Story Parade and then four episodes of the BBC television series Out of the Unknown, based on " Satisfaction Guaranteed " ( 1966 ), " Reason ( in an episode titled " The Prophet ", 1967 ), " Liar!

Subsequently, Caine's agent got him cast in the BBC production Hamlet at Elsinore ( 1964 ) as Horatio in support of Christopher Plummer's Hamlet.

* BBC Wales feature on tramps as gentlemen of the road from 1964

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

* 1964 BBC TV Personality of the Year

* 1964: The Count of Monte Cristo, BBC television serial starring Alan Badel and Natasha Parry

The reason given by the BBC was that 1964 was an election year, and it was felt the show's political material could compromise the corporation's impartiality.

Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966.

He also was the " voice " of Lloyd-George in the seminal BBC documentary The Great War ( 1964 ).

After 1964 the BBC SO was the only one of the five London symphony orchestras that was not self-governed, and some musicians felt that the BBC SO's constitution as a body of salaried employees, with no say in the management or repertory of the orchestra, attracted an unadventurous type of player.

Notable television performances include narration for The Great War ( 1964 ), a history of the First World War using stills and ' stretched ' archive film, and the less successful Lost Peace series ( BBC Television, 1964 and 1966 ).