In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

* BBC page about The World of Beachcomber

The BBC radio commentary on the final day of the innings ( 6 June 1994 ), by Dave Roberts, was being broadcast around the world live via the BBC World Service network, and in the UK on BBC Radios 1, 2 & 4 as well as the majority of BBC Local radio stations.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

The BBC had run the international news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997.

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.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

The Falkland Islands Radio Service ( FIRS ) operates a radio network in conjunction with the BBC World Service, while the British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS ) operates three networks of its own.

KTV Ltd. also operate two relay stations, KTV Radio Nova ( a rebroadcast of BBC World Service ) and KTV Radio Nova Saint FM ( a rebroadcast of Saint FM ).

He also took part in a few radio broadcasts for the Eastern Service of the BBC.

The Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation ( GBC ) operates Radio Gibraltar on both FM and AM, broadcasting a mix of local programming in English and Spanish, and retransmissions of the BBC World Service.

It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) and when this is viewed as a time zone the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United Kingdom, such as the BBC World Service, the Royal Navy, the Met Office and others particularly in Arab countries, such as the Middle East Broadcasting Center and OSN.

Dobbs's novel was also dramatised for radio for BBC World Service in 1996, by Neville Teller, and had two television sequels ( To Play the King and The Final Cut ).

Category: BBC World Service

) He continued to read the Times, which was not generally available in the USSR, listened to the BBC World Service, and was an avid follower of cricket.

The BBC World Service Arabic broadcasts on 91. 5 FM in Tripoli, Benghazi, and Misrata.

Ulaanbaatar has 20 FM stations, including foreign radio stations BBC World Service, VOA, and Inner Mongolian Radio.

BBC World Service.

* 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, " high-definition " ( then defined as at least 200 lines ) service.

* Audio: Peter Singer in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum

BBC World Service is available on 88 FM in the capital, and is relayed in Timişoara ( 93. 9 ), Sibiu ( 88. 4 ) and Constanta ( 96. 9 ).

The BBC World Service has a station based in Grand Anse in southern Mahé which is also listened to in parts of East Africa.

The local radio stations are Free Radio ( Formerly known as Wyvern FM ) which broadcasts on 97. 6-96. 7-102. 8 FM, Sunshine Radio on 106. 2 FM and 954 kHz Am, and BBC Hereford and Worcester which broadcasts on 94. 7FM.

BBC Radio Berkshire ( 94. 6, 95. 4, 104. 1, 104. 4 ), Heart Berkshire ( 97. 0, 102. 9, 103. 4 ), Reading 107 ( 107. 0 ), all broadcast from Reading, serve an area including Henley, as does Time 106. 6 ( 106. 6 ) broadcast from Slough.

::*( BBS 90. 7FM, PBS 91. 9FM, BBC 92. 1FM, VOB 92. 9FM, CBC 94. 7FM, HOTT 95. 3FM, Mix 96. 9FM, Gospel 97. 5FM, The One 98. 1FM, WE 99. 9FM ( SVG ), Q 100. 7FM, SLAM 101. 1FM, Faith 102. 1FM, Love 104. 1FM, Radio GED 106. 1 FM )

From 2013, responsibility for funding S4C will begin to transfer to the BBC, with the DCMS reducing its funding by 94 % by 2015.

It was broadcast live on 95. 8 Capital FM and BBC London 94. 9.

Commercial radio stations that provide music and local news include Wyvern ( radio ) broadcsting on 96. 7 FM, Touch FM broadcasting on 102 FM, and BBC Hereford & Worcester broadcasting on 104 FM and 94. 7 FM.

In March 2004, Blackburn returned to BBC London 94. 9, presenting a Monday evening soul show, and in addition to that, in April of the same year, he also took on the Saturday lunchtime show.

Although his Monday evening show on BBC London 94. 9 ended in July 2004, he still continued to present the Saturday lunchtime show for the station.

After leaving Classic Gold, Blackburn continued with his Saturday Lunchtime show on BBC London 94. 9 and also took over a three hour soul show on the KMFM network in Kent each Sunday afternoon.

On 9 March 2008, he began a Sunday request show ( in place of his Saturday show ) on BBC London 94. 9.

Blackburn now presents BBC Radio 2's Pick of the Pops every Saturday from 1-3pm as well as BBC London 94. 9 on Sundays from 12-2pm and a weekly Sunday show on Magic 1161. Tony is regular relief cover for Anne Diamond on BBC Radio Berkshire ( 10am-1pm ).

* ( BBC London 94. 9 )

She currently presents an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2, a mid morning phone-in show on BBC London 94. 9.

She also presented a Jewish radio show on BBC GLR ( now BBC London 94. 9 ).

From late 2002 she has presented phone-in shows on BBC London 94. 9.

" She also continued her morning phone-in programme on BBC London 94. 9 at 09: 00 until 12: 00 each weekday.

* ( BBC London 94. 9 )

* A variety of radio hosts have used the term for events encouraged or sponsored by the shows, such as Brent Farris of KZST in California, Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1, David Stein of the Sporting News Radio, and Kfm Breakfast of 94. 5 Kfm in South Africa.

Its output includes the daily BBC London News and the weekly Politics Show on television, the BBC London 94. 9 radio station and local coverage of the London area on BBC Online and Ceefax.