" It is unknown when Alfred launched this programme, but it may have been during the 880s when Wessex was enjoying a respite from Viking attacks.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

The club engages the services of a head tennis professional to run a coaching programme for the town and was crowned Tennis Wales ' Club of the Year in 2010.

Some assistance was provided to Belarus within the framework of the TACIS programme and also through various aid programs and loans.

That was made possible by changes in party leadership, programme, reduction of its power base and other which permitted economic reorientation toward a market system.

During the Summer, the hour long programme News 24 Sunday was broadcast both on BBC One and the BBC News Channel at 09: 00, to replace The Andrew Marr Show, which is off air.

The programme was made up mostly of interviews focusing on current affairs, and included a full paper review, a weather summary, and a news update at 09: 00, 09: 30 and 10: 00.

The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid ( Mondays to Wednesdays ), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt ( Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends ).

With no effective long-range weapon the original Blue Steel served on after a crash programme of minor modifications to permit a low-level launch at, even though its usefulness in a hot war was likely limited.

The new programme of building was carried out in great haste: Columns, marbles, doors, and tiles were taken wholesale from the temples of the Empire and moved to the new city.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

A large house-building programme was carried out with the intention of providing millions of people with high-quality homes.

It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

Blue Jam was an ambient radio comedy programme created and directed by Chris Morris.

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.

This discovery was made public in a BBC TV programme in 1999, reviving debate about Soviet links to CND.

" By 1967, critics were suggesting that the programme no longer reflected life in 1960s Britain, but reflected how life was in the 1950s.

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1970s.

Warren's programme was largely matriarchal, which some commentators put down to the female-dominant environment in which he grew up.

Daran Little, for many years the official programme archivist, claims that the first episode to be transmitted in colour was episode 930 shown on 24 November 1969.

Harry Kershaw was the script editor for Coronation Street when the programme began in 1960, working alongside Tony Warren.

On 24 September 2008, Film London, the capital ’ s film and media agency launched The New Black, a two year funding and training programme that will expand opportunities for theatrical exhibition of Black film in London.

# he launched a modest programme of school lunches for the poor.

On his arrival, Kapodistrias launched a major reform and modernisation programme that covered all areas.

While encouraging the construction of large dams ( which Nehru called the " new temples of India "), irrigation works and the generation of hydroelectricity, Nehru also launched India's programme to harness nuclear energy.

1951: BCG Vaccination programme was launched

He also established a modern government structure and launched a major development programme to upgrade educational and health facilities, build a modern infrastructure, and develop the country's natural resources.

In 1955, the malaria eradication programme was launched, although it was later altered in objective.

As the gold boom ended Premier Julius Vogel borrowed money from British investors and launched in 1870 an ambitious programme of public works and infrastructure investment, together with a policy of assisted immigration.

Raeder did not care for the " pocket battleships " programme that had been launched in 1928, and much preferred to build large capital ships.

Rushton was involved as one of the hosts in the early episodes of another satirical programme in late 1964 Not So Much A Programme, but drifted away as it became the vehicle that launched David Frost as a chat show host.

A Financial Management Initiative was launched in September 1982 ( Efficiency and Effectiveness in the Civil Service ( Cmnd 8616 )) as an umbrella for the efficiency scrutiny programme and with a wider focus on corporate planning, efficiency and objective-setting.

The programme launched by Prof. Swartz was the UFH Strategic Plan 2000.

For example in 1939, Britain launched the programme Paper Salvage to encourage the recycling of materials to aid the war effort.

The station was launched as part of the Soviet Union's manned spaceflight programme effort to maintain a long-term research outpost in space, and, following the collapse of the USSR, was operated by the new Russian Federal Space Agency ( RKA ).

Luna 2 ( E-1A series ) was the second of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon.

While a total of nine space stations were launched in the Salyut programme, with six successfully manned, setting some records along the way, it were the stations Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 that became the workhorses of the program: Out of the total of 1, 697 days of occupancy that all Salyut crews achieved, it were Salyut 6 and 7 that accounted for 1, 499.

The University of Glasgow, since maintaining its provision in Dumfries, has launched a new undergraduate programme in primary teaching.

* TD programme, a series of satellites launched by ESRO

Today was launched on the BBC's Home Service on 28 October 1957 as a programme of ' topical talks ' to give listeners a morning alternative to light music.

Groupe Aeroplan launched a separate Nectar programme in Italy in 2010.

The European City of Culture programme was launched in the summer of 1985 with Athens being the first title-holder.

He spent the summer that year writing a fascist programme, The Greater Britain, and this formed the basis of policy of the BUF, which was launched in October 1932.

One Europa-II was launched from the site, before the programme was cancelled.