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.

* BBC News report on handover, 8 August 2006

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

" By 7 January, that storyline had generated the most complaints in show history: the BBC received about 8, 500 complaints, and media regulator Ofcom received 374.

BBC Two showed an episode on 8 November 2008 as part of its tribute night to producer Geoffrey Perkins, who had died just over two months before.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

AM 0, FM 8 ( two main FM programs are broadcast through a system of repeaters, three international FM programs include the BBC, VOA, and DW-World ), shortwave 1 ( 2005 )

" BBC News 8 April 2001.

Electronic Battle Weapons 8 & 9 were debuted on Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 show on 8 December 2006.

* November 8 – The BBC's first local radio station ( BBC Radio Leicester ) is launched.

* co. uk / mediaguardian / story / 0, 755 8, 1308092, 00. html Between the lines – BBC political editor Andrew Marr gives an insider's account of what to look for in British newspaper content.

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.

They also designed the BBC One Christmas Idents for that year, which featured Wallace and Gromit to tie in with the showing of the new Wallace and Gromit film called A Matter of Loaf and Death on Christmas Day at 8: 30pm.

" Composer of the Week: André Campra 1660-1744 ", Episode 3, BBC: Broadcast 8 December 2010

Broadcast 20 September to 4 October 1981, it was dramatised by Barry Campbell starring Derek Jacobi as Hugh Conway and Alan Wheatley as the High Lama, and re-broadcast 8 September to 10 September 2010 on BBC Radio 7, and again in March 2012 on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

The King gave his answer on 3 July, and proclaimed it on BBC radio on 8 July.

Excerpts from La coupe du roi de Thulé, edited by Winton Dean, were broadcast by the BBC on 12 July 1955, and Le docteur Miracle was revived in London on 8 December 1957 by the Park Lane Group.

On VE Day, 8 May 1945, Lyttelton joined in the celebrations by playing his trumpet from a wheelbarrow, inadvertently giving his first broadcast performance ; the BBC recording still survives.

In 1971 BBC Records released The Magic Roundabout ( RBT 8 ), an LP containing 10 stories taken from the soundtracks of the TV series as told by Eric Thompson.

Early episodes of the pop music-chart show Top of the Pops were wiped or never recorded and only broadcast " live ", the last edition that was wiped from the BBC archives dates from 8 September 1977.

was first broadcast on 8 September 1972 on the BBC, in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse.

Sky News had had a free hand with domestic news for over eight years ( since 5 February 1989 ) and being owned by News International their papers were used to criticise the BBC for extending its news output.

Bulletins on BBC One moved into a new set in January 2003 although retained the previous ivory Lambie-Nairn titles until February 2004.

On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two.

In February 2012 McLean won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Life Time Achievement award

It was broadcast again on February 12, 2012 on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Jersey's finance industry featured in a BBC Panorama documentary, titled " Tax me if you can ", broadcast of 2 February 2009.

On the 6th of February 2008, the BBC reported that heavy rain might lead to a release of water from the dam, which would force 50, 000 people downstream to evacuate.

* Nuclear Secrets Superspy BBC Television, accessed 23 February 2007

* Explosion kills former Lebanon PM BBC, February 14, 2005

Renwick also adapted four episodes for BBC Radio 2, which first aired between 21 January 1995 and 11 February 1995.

The first known piece of television science fiction anywhere in the world was produced by the BBC on February 11, 1938, a thirty-five-minute adaptation of a section of the play R. U. R ..

In February 2009, BBC One broadcast an animated, interactive tree of life as part of its " Darwin Season.

To commemorate the centenary of the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation on 13 February 1995 ; directed by Glyn Dearman, it featured Judi Dench as " Lady Bracknell ", Sir Michael Hordern as " Lane ", Michael Sheen as " Jack Worthing ", Martin Clunes as " Algernon Moncrieff ", John Moffatt as " Rev.

Harlan Ellison was approached by Robert Kline, a 20th Century Fox television producer, to come up with an idea for a science fiction TV series consisting of eight episodes, to pitch to the BBC as a co-production in February 1973.

Then, in February 1978, before the release of their second single, X-Ray Spex recorded the first of two sessions for John Peel at BBC Radio 1.

* ' Unlucky ' airline logo grounded BBC, 21 February 2007

In February 1938, a thirty-five minute adaptation of a section of the play was broadcast on BBC Television – the first piece of television science-fiction ever to be broadcast.

From the end of February 2007, the island was seen around the world as the setting for the BBC One reality show, Castaway, which was filmed there for three months.

The trial was due to last 6 months but the BBC were forced to cease broadcasts with the Baird system in February 1937, due to a disastrous fire in the Baird studio.

Starring Bill Nighy, Miranda Richardson and Emily Blunt, it was first broadcast in the UK on BBC One on 26 February 2006.

* Albanian rebels training for Serbian war, BBC News, 12 February 2001

* BBC On This Day – 13 February, 1961: EX-Congo PM Declared Dead

* BBC On This Day – 19 February, 1961: Lumumba Rally Clashes with UK Police

On 27 February 2007 ( Horne's centenary ), BBC Radio 4 broadcast a half-hour documentary tribute entitled Sound the Horne.