** BBC Choice closes for the final time at 12: 30 a. m., being replaced with BBC Three at 7 p. m.

Scott's novelty record " My Brother " ( written by Mitch Murray, released 1962 on PYE ) was based on this schoolboy character ( he dressed in the uniform to sing it on TV ) and received regular airplay on BBC Radio ( in particular Ed ' Stewpot ' Stewart's Saturday and Sunday morning programme Junior Choice which was simultaneous broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and 2 ) for many years.

She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred in another two BBC sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

* Punch, a station identification for BBC Choice used from 1998 ( see here )

*" Antonia's Choice " – In Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 ( first broadcast 27 July 2008 )

After a spell with Radio Luxembourg, Young joined the BBC as one of the first disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, presenting the weekday mid-morning show from 1967 to 1973 and because of his popularity soon became known as the ' Housewives ' Choice '.

He presented a self-penned film at the launch of BBC Choice ( now BBC3 ), and did the same for a project by Carlton ‘ The Great London Debate ’.

Healy had high hopes for the series, but was reportedly upset when it was only screened on the digital channel BBC Choice ( later relaunched as BBC Three ) and never broadcast on BBC One or BBC Two.

During 1982 BBC Radio 1 dropped the name Junior Choice and the show became the Weekend Breakfast Show which Blackburn continued to host until his final show on 23 September 1984.

After the election, Christine and Neil Hamilton appeared together on Have I Got News For You, an appearance that established her as a chat-show personality and she subsequently appeared on myriad programmes including her own ' Christine Hamilton Show ' on BBC Choice where she interviewed celebrities who had ' been through stormy waters ' of some kind, ranging from Jonathan Aitken to James Hewitt, from Bernard Manning to Ivana Trump, and from Paul Merson to John Fashanu.

Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its axing in 2011.

The band performed another radio session on 13 June for " Inside Tracks " ( on BBC Choice digital radio ).

Their plan was for BBC Knowledge to be renamed BBC Four, and indeed this took place in 2002, and for BBC Choice to be renamed BBC Three.

The new designs also featured a dynamic set of titles for the channel ; the globe would begin spinning from where the main story was taking place, while the headline scrolled around in a ribbon ; this was occasionally replaced by the BBC News logo.

The surviving reels were featured in the BBC documentary The Epic That Never Was ( 1965 ), revealing some of Laughton's most accomplished acting.

Enya is featured in featurettes included with the 2003 BBC Video DVD release of The Celts, including performances of several songs videotaped in the late 1980s.

This ancient inoculation procedure featured in the BBC documentary-What the Ancients Did for Us.

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

Robyn was featured on Jo Whiley's BBC Radio 1 showcase show, Live Lounge, a reflection of her growing popularity in Britain.

Simon and Garfunkel returned to England in the fall of 1968 and did a concert appearance at Kraft Hall which was broadcast on the BBC, and also featured Paul's brother Ed sitting in on a performance of the instrumental " Anji ".

Meanwhile, the BBC adapted The Changes ( 1975 ), which featured the quest of a teenage girl, Nicky Gore, to discover the cause of the shift back to the pre-industrial and pre-technological age, and bring it to an end.

The Major Oak was featured on the 2005 BBC TV programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the natural wonders of the Midlands.

" No More Heroes " was covered by Violent Femmes, used for the film Mystery Men and was also featured on the first episode of the BBC series Ashes to Ashes.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

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.

The Lizard was featured on the BBC television programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the South West.

Nelson Mandela practiced Nguni stick fighting as a child, and it was featured on the Discovery and BBC reality TV show Last Man Standing.

The popular British Television show Doctor Who featured the Transcontinental Railroad in a BBC audio book entitled The Runaway Train, read by Matt Smith and written for audio by Oli Smith.

More recently Al Capone, Frank Sinatra, Mr. Burns, Vinnie Jones and Dara Ó Briain whose dog Snip Nua featured on BBC TV, raced greyhounds.

She was featured in a UFO documentary that Williams did for BBC Radio 4 in April and took part in a field investigation he did in Trout Lake, Washington in August 2008.

* Arena ( TV series ) ( 1981 ) The program's episode, " Chelsea Hotel " was featured on the popular BBC arts documentary series.

" Simon and Garfunkel returned to England in the fall of 1968 and did a church concert appearance at Kraft Hall, which was broadcast on the BBC, and which also featured Paul's brother Ed sitting in on a performance of the instrumental " Anji ".

The BBC producer Leslie Bridgemont was responsible for a show called Merry-go-Round, which featured, in weekly rotation, shows based on the Army, Navy and RAF.

Following his At Last the 1948 Show, Feldman was given his own series on the BBC called Marty ( 1968 ); it featured Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod, with Cleese as one of the writers.

The BBC broadcast of the television film featured a dedication to Pertwee at its end.

He featured in Barker's Porridge ( BBC ), a prison-based comedy, as the elderly Blanco in three episodes.

Mornington Crescent is an improvisational game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated panel games.

The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.

* 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.

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.

Scott Mills presented his show from 4: 00 pm to 7: 00 pm live from the BBC Bubble in Edinburgh, as did Nick Grimshaw with his show at 10: 00 pm.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

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

In 1983, he was invited to record a session on the John Peel BBC Radio show with his band, performing six poems, which was his first professional engagement.

Charles was a guest on programmes including Janice Long's Radio 1 show, and was a regular panellist on Ned Sherrin's chat show Loose Ends ( 1987-8 ) on BBC Radio 4.

In 2000, the Solid Steel show moved to BBC London.

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

He also covered the Sunday morning 11 AM-1 PM show on BBC Radio 2 through the end of January 2008.

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

" 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 Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

He moved in to broadcasting, working at the BBC, firstly working as a pundit on Match of the Day before he went on to present the flagship show.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

In the 1980s comedian Andy Cameron presented the Hogmanay show on BBC Scotland while Peter Morrison presented a show called " A Highland Hogmanay " on STV / Grampian.

Since 1993, the programmes that have been mainstays on BBC Scotland on Hogmanay have been Hogmanay Live and Jonathan Watson's football-themed sketch comedy show, Only an Excuse?

* 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two.

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.