* BBC News report on the ( delayed ) successful launch of the Ariane 5 ECA flight on November 16, 2005.

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

With domestic news, the correspondent first records a " generic minute " summary ( for use by all stations and channels ) and then priority is to report on BBC Radio 5 Live, then on the BBC News Channel and any other programmes that are on air.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

* BBC News report on handover, 8 August 2006

* BBC News report on handover, 14 August 2008

A 2005 BBC News report claimed that 8 percent of modern Niger's population continues to be slave, discriminated and routinely humiliated.

On the evening of 28 April, the BBC broadcast a Reuters news report about Himmler's attempted negotiations with the western Allies.

A 2012 report by the BBC claimed that " interest in lucid dreaming has grown in recent years ", and corroborated this with examples of the many telephone apps that exist to help people experience the phenomenon.

In 2002, the BBC used the headline " English and Welsh are races apart " to report a genetic survey of test subjects from market towns in England and Wales.

" according to a BBC report on Škoda sales in 1980s.

A BBC News report described it as follows: " The first thing that hits you here is this rich stench of almost 1 million people living in this ditch-in mud huts, with no sewage pipes, no roads, no water, no toilet, in fact, with no services of any kind.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

* ' Snowball Earth ' theory melted BBC News online ( 2002-03-06 ) report on findings by geoscientists at the University of St Andrews, Scotland that casts doubt on the Snowball Earth hypothesis due to evidence of sedimentary material, which could only have been derived from floating ice on open oceanic waters.

* Life may have survived ' Snowball Earth ' in ocean pockets BBC News online ( 2010-12-14 ) report on research presented in the journal Geology by Dr Dan Le Heron ( et al.

* a BBC report on Saint Stephen's day celebrations in Hungary

* BBC report about Viz, concerning its cartoon based on Fred West and Harold Shipman

A BBC TV news report conjectured that if police had positioned two police horses correctly, they would have acted as breakwaters directing many fans into side pens, but on this occasion, it was not done.

This may have been a result of the anti-Shah bias in BBC Radio's influential Persian broadcasts into Iran: a BBC report of 23 March 2009 explains that many in Iran saw the broadcaster and the government as one, and interpreted the bias for Khomeini as evidence of weakening British government support for the Shah.

* report by BBC

* BBC report on 2002 arrests

* BBC report on the 2006 attack

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.

Following the death of Arthur C. Clarke, BBC Sky At Night magazine released a copy of the 1977 archive programme on the cover of their May 2008 edition.

Williams was a regular on the BBC radio panel game Just a Minute from its second season in 1968 until his death.

As a child he has been portrayed by Dora Senior in the 1899 silent short King John ( 1899 ), a version of John's death scene from Shakespeare's King John, and by Rusty Livingstone in the 1984 BBC Television Shakespeare version of the play.

* Remember This — An Elegy on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, at the BBC

* BBC News article reporting his death

It features an audio clip of a BBC correspondent on Lumumba's death.

The day after his death the BBC Parliament channel showed the BBC results coverage of the 1970 election.

For 22 years, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which he joined as a regular team member from the third series in 1974, and continued until death in 1996.

Scholars think that the manuscript was written sometime between Cuthbert ’ s death in 687 and Eadfrith ’ s death in 721 ( BBC Tyne 2012 ).

* BBC report of Buscetta's death

The story of Antinous ' death was recently dramatized in the radio play " The Glass Ball Game ", Episode Two of the second series of the BBC radio drama CAESAR, written by Mike Walker, directed by Jeremy Mortimer and starring Jonathan Coy as " Suetonius ", Jonathan Hyde as " Hadrian " and Andrew Garfield as " Antinous ".

On screen he has been portrayed by Franklyn McLeay in the silent short King John ( 1899 ), which recreates John's death scene at the end of the Shakespeare play, Jonathan Adams in the BBC TV drama series The Devil's Crown ( 1978 ), and John Thaw in the BBC Shakespeare version of The Life and Death of King John ( 1984 ).

The Editor's Note to The Complete Yes Prime Minister ( supposedly published in 2024 after Hacker's death but actually published by the BBC in 1989 ), thanks " Sir Bernard Woolley GCB " for his help and confirms that he did indeed make it to the position of Head of the Civil Service.

In the BBC TV series Sherlock episode " The Great Game ", John Watson believes a cat named Sekhmet is responsible for the death of her owner.

One of Ulverston's lesser known sons is the late Bryan Martin, senior BBC Radio 4 Newsreader and Presenter of the 70s and 80s, whose dulcet tones on the " Today " programme announced to the country the death of Elvis Presley in 1977 and broke the news of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.

In October 1984, images of millions of people starving to death in Ethiopia were shown in the UK in Michael Buerk's BBC News reports on the 1984 famine.

For a few years after Brian's death, while Simpson still had influence at the BBC, there was a revival of interest with a number of recordings and performances ; two biographies and a three-volume study of his symphonies appeared.

In 2004, Smith stood in as one of three guest presenters for John Peel on BBC Radio 1, a week before Peel's death.