* How to plan for and decide on a pension impartial advice from BBC raw

To cope with this, many BBC websites would be closed including BBC Switch, BBC Blast, 6-0-6, BBC raw, Video Nation, and planned to sell the Douglas Adams created website h2g2, as well as the automation of many programme websites and radio websites.

BBC raw words offers exclusive audio versions of the latest Quick Reads by Andy McNab, Last Night Another Soldier ( 2010 ), read by Rupert Degas.

* Watch video clips about story writing on BBC raw words starring Nina Wadia

Best drew upon his relationship with his own father in the making of the programme, which the BBC described as a ' raw and often distressing journey '.

In the words of BBC correspondent Robert Orchard, " the Dome was to be highlighted as a glittering New Labour achievement in the next election manifesto ".

Mark Mardell of the BBC news reported: On the Monday the Conference was to begin, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini ( who was until last year the European commissioner for security and justice ) had told the Italian newspaper Il Giornale that Europe's failure to agree on a common approach was " a very serious mistake, because it shows our inability, despite all the words uttered in this connection, to come up with at least a lowest common denominator on a basic problem: namely the struggle against discrimination, on behalf of which we in Brussels so often speak out ".

Pepper album that was banned from playing on the BBC, supposedly because the phrase " Henry the Horse " combined two words that were individually known as slang for heroin.

Moore does not remember his words at " The Eagle Has Landed " moment, and the BBC lost all the tapes of the broadcast.

Nevertheless, the overinterpretation of the theme of the song, as well as the fact that the lyrics of the song consisted for the most part of the often-repeated word " opera " and names of well-known operas and composers, and Çetin's breaking into operatic " lay lay la ", prompted extensive derision of the song, including the usual sardonic words from BBC commentator Terry Wogan (" a nicely understated performance there ").

This idea was repeated in a submission to the BBC in 2005 that included a story of a 1941 radar lecturer in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire drawing the circuit diagram, and the words " WOT!

The song regained prominence in 1932 when the Irish lyricist Jimmy Kennedy added words and it was recorded by the then popular Henry Hall ( and his BBC Dance Orchestra ) featuring Val Rosing ( Gilbert Russell ) as lead vocalist, which went on to sell a million copies.

The first words spoken on BBC Radio 1 were "... and good morning everyone!

The New York Times wrote " Trinny Woodall, one of the upper-crusty and scathingly blunt hosts of What Not to Wear, a hugely popular fashion makeover show on the BBC, does not mince words.

In 1988 Coia became the host of the BBC gameshow Catchword, memorable for the fact that seemingly every contestant endeavoured to employ the words floccinaucinihilipilification or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis during their efforts.

In the UK, BBC Radio 1 broadcasted the full show, live from Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday 21 July which led to controversy over the amount of swear words Madonna uttered live on air and the BBC had to issue an apology.

In the " Film Club " round of the popular long running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, regular reference is made to this film with one or more words changed to satisfy that weeks theme of comedy film titles-usually by Graeme Garden.

According to the BBC, it " started life as a jig with Irish roots, whose first appearance seems to be in a collection published in London in 1661 entitled ' An Antidote Against Melancholy ', where it is set to the words ' There was an old man of Waltham Cross '.

It was during the production of Till Death Us Do Part that a BBC bureaucrat, according to legend, attempted to talk Speight into ameliorating his script by bargaining the number of occurrences of " damn ", " bloody " and other words held to be offensive.

The BBC also wrote that the song is " a spectacular party anthem " that " highlights 50 Cent's ability to twist his words effortlessly ".

The first words spoken on BBC Radio Lincolnshire came from Nick Brunger: " And it's a warm welcome for the first time to the programmes of BBC Radio Lincolnshire.

He has written miscellaneous songs, as well as both words and music for television, ( Watching, Split Ends for Granada TV ) and Love Songs ( BBC Radio ).

The BBC trivia show QI claimed there were 923 words spelled cie, 21 times the number of words which conform to the rule's stated exception by being written with cei.

* Where RP / BBC has the rounded LOT vowel in words containing the spellings ' f ', ' ff ', ' gh ' or ' th ' ( such as ' often ', ' off ', ' cough ', ' trough ' and ' cloth '), Norfolk may have as in the vowel of THOUGHT.

* The GOAT vowel of RP / BBC generally has a quality that can be represented as in Norfolk: thus words with the spelling ' oa ', ' oe ' and ' oCe ' such as ' boat ', ' toe ', ' code ' sound to outsiders like ' boot ', ' too ', ' cood ' respectively.

An exception is that of words spelt with ' ou ', ' ow ', ' ol ' such as ' soul ', ' know ', ' told ' which have a diphthong quite similar to the RP / BBC.

* In the speech of older Norwich residents and in rural areas, a distinction exists which is absent in RP / BBC: where the latter has the FACE vowel, the former accent has in words spelt with ' ai ' or ' ay ' such as ' rain ' and ' day ', but ( similar to ' air ') in words spelt ' aCe ' such as ' take ', ' late '.

* 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 ".