A 2004 Globescan survey found the WBCSD as the second most effective SD research organization.

The Worldwatch Institute is a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D. C. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable development research organizations by Globescan Survey of Sustainability Experts.

In 1999 the series came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nation's favourite children's show.

* In 2002, on a UK poll broadcast by the BBC, Chaplin was ranked number 66 on a list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Marx is widely considered one of the most influential thinkers in history, who has had a significant influence on both world politics and intellectual thought, and in a 1999 BBC poll was voted the top " thinker of the millennium ".

In July 2005, 27. 9 % of listeners in a BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time poll selected Marx as their favorite thinker.

In 2005 he was voted the Worst Czech in a ČT poll ( a programme under the BBC licence 100 Greatest Britons ).

In 2004, the series came tenth in a 2004 BBC poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ".

In 2004, One Foot in the Grave came tenth in a BBC poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom " with 31, 410 votes.

Sutch's album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time, despite the fact that Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins performed on it and helped write it.

In a BBC poll in August 1999, Milligan was voted the " funniest person of the last 1000 years ".

Another Smallfilms production, Bagpuss, came top of a BBC poll to find the favourite children's programme.

It was also voted as the 27th greatest song never to reach UK # 1 in another VH1 poll, and also voted as the 84th greatest song of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in their " Sold on Song " top 100 poll.

* In a 2006 poll by BBC History magazine for " worst Briton " of the previous millennium, Becket came second behind Jack the Ripper.

In August 2002, Powell appeared 55th in the List of 100 Greatest Britons of all time ( voted for by the public in a BBC nationwide poll ).

Lewis was a 1970 Nobel nominee for literature, and in 2005 was voted 10th as Wales ' ' greatest-ever person ' in a BBC Wales poll.

* The Big Read by the BBC ranked Catch-22 as number 11 on a web poll of the UK's best-loved book.

In a poll by BBC Radio 6 Music listeners in April 2010, Prince was ranked the eighth-best guitarist of the previous 30 years.

In 2005, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire was voted Britain's " greatest painting " in a public poll organised by the BBC.

The show came 14th in a high-profile 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, and was praised for portraying older people in a non-stereotypical, positive, and active manner.

In 2008, Bottom came in at number 45 in a poll to determine " Britain's Best Sitcom " by the BBC.

Yes Minister came sixth in a 2004 BBC poll to find ' Britain's Best Sitcom '.

In September 2002, Streatham High Road was voted the " Worst Street in Britain " in a poll organised by the BBC Today programme and CABE.

A grassroots campaign saw his " Beware of the Flowers Cause I'm Sure They're Going to Get You Yeah " voted the seventh greatest lyric of all time in a BBC poll.

A concerted drive, including a poll ( scrutinised by the Electoral Reform Society ) to select the track, saw " Bunsen Burner " — with music sampled from the Trammps song " Disco Inferno " and lyrics devised to help his daughter with her chemistry homework — reach number nine in the UK Singles Chart on 6 October, and earned Otway an appearance on Top Of The Pops, BBC Television's flagship popular music programme.

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.

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

* 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

Written, directed, and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC's The Wednesday Play anthology series, it caused dismay within the BBC and in government and was withdrawn from television transmission on 6 August 1965 ( the twentieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing ).

On 3 December 2004, the twentieth anniversary of the disaster, a man claiming to be a Dow representative named Jude Finisterra was interviewed on BBC World News.

She was a guest, along with David Puttnam on the BBC Radio 4 documentary I Had The Misery Thursday, a tribute programme to film actor Montgomery Clift, which was aired in 1986, on the twentieth anniversary of Clift's death.

In the first half of the twentieth century the NSS campaigned against the BBC ’ s religious broadcasting policy, for disestablishment and for secular education.

A BBC Showbiz Hall of Fame article described him as " possessing one of the finest English tenor voices of the twentieth century.

Reviewing John Arlott: Cricket ’ s Radical Voice, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death, Gillian Reynolds wrote in the Daily Telegraph of " Arlott ’ s independence, his Englishness, sense of fairness and justice, sympathy for the underdog and relish for the beautiful and the good ".

Eve Arnold photographed many of the iconic figures who shaped the second half of the twentieth century, yet she was equally comfortable documenting the lives of the poor and dispossessed, “ migrant workers, civil-rights protestors of apartheid in South Africa, disabled Vietnam war veterans and Mongolian herdsmen .” For Arnold, there was no dicotomy: “" I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary ," she said in a 1990 BBC interview, " I see them simply as people in front of my lens .”

On December 3, 2004, the twentieth anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, Andy Bichlbaum appeared on BBC World as " Jude Finisterra ", a Dow Chemical spokesman.

Described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as " the great technician of cabinet government in the mid twentieth century ", also Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors 1963-1967.

His latest radio play, INVESTIGATING MR THOMAS-his twentieth for BBC Radio-transmitted in March 2008.