* BBC Radio Cymru: Welsh language network

Before the launch of S4C, Welsh-speakers had been served by occasional programmes in Welsh broadcast as regional opt-outs on BBC Wales and HTV Cymru Wales ( the ITV franchise in Wales ), usually at off-peak or inconvenient times.

During the 1970s, Welsh-language activists had campaigned for a TV service in the language, which already had its own radio station, BBC Radio Cymru.

Like Channel 4, S4C does not produce programmes of its own ; instead, it commissions programmes from BBC Cymru and independent producers ( although the quantity purchased from ITV Wales has greatly reduced since the early years of S4C ), and it has particularly developed a reputation for commissioning cartoons, such as SuperTed, Sam Tân ( which became Fireman Sam in its English version on the BBC ) and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.

Bangor is home to a small BBC broadcasting centre, producing a large amount of output for BBC Radio Cymru.

Welsh bands have the outlet for audiences, on such media as BBC Wales, BBC Cymru, S4C and The Pop Factory.

" Cymru has been doing its homework ", wrote BBC Wales political reporter Simon Morris, and is " determined to produce a credible programme of public service reform ".

He was a presenter on Classic FM as well as on Welsh radio ( BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru ) and television ( S4C ).

Taking part in the BBC Cymru Wales TV series Coming Home in November 2010, Williams discovered she was the first member of her family to have been born outside Wales in all the 350 years of her known family tree.

* Wales – BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru

Although no BBC local radio stations exist for North Wales, the Corporation's national services BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru cover the region from its broadcasting centre in Bangor, a smaller studio and newsroom in Wrexham and a satellite studio in Mold.

BBC Cymru Wales news teams are based at the Corporation's Bangor, Wrexham and Mold studios while ITV Wales runs a newsroom in Colwyn Bay.

* BBC Cymru Wales

The competition is organised by BBC Wales and is televised by BBC Two, BBC Four and BBC Wales TV and broadcast over radio channels BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Wales, and the Welsh language BBC Radio Cymru.

* BBC, South East Wales – Feature on Abergavenny

Graphics and titles were developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and were gradually rolled out across the whole of BBC News, including a similar design for regional news starting with Newsroom South East and the three BBC Nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

At the time the fourth service was being considered, a movement in Wales lobbied for the creation of dedicated service that would air Welsh-language programmes, then only catered for at ' off peak ' times on BBC Wales and HTV.

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

* BBC Wales ' Dylan Thomas site.

* BBC Wales Nature: Fox videos

* Edward Baker-Duly in the 2010 BBC Wales / Masterpiece TV production Upstairs, Downstairs

Kinnock himself later claimed to have half-expected his defeat in the 1992 election and proceeded to turn himself into a media personality, even hosting a chat show on BBC Wales and twice appearing – with considerable success – on the topical panel show Have I Got News For You within a year of the defeat.

In 2011 Kinnock took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history, the programme was broadcast on 30 November 2011.

* BBC Wales History-Profile of Owain Glyndŵr

The restaged trials were run over a section of line in Llangollen, Wales, and were the subject of a BBC Timewatch documentary.

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.

Pobol y Cwm was originally transmitted on BBC Wales television between 1974 and 1982.

A common misconception is that the Doctor Who production team at BBC Wales were so impressed by how much more resilient the toy sonic screwdriver was than the real prop, that they obtained moulds of the original prototype of the toy to use in the 2006 series, in fact, this was not the case.

England has made squatting illegal on the 1st of September 2012 as BBC reports: " Squatting in a residential building in England and Wales will become a criminal offence on Saturday, meaning squatters could face jail or a fine.

Regional stations include BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales.

That same year the BBC reported that Jones was Wales ' wealthiest entertainer, having amassed a fortune of £ 175 million.

* BBC Wales Music

* Royal Family ( 1969 ) is a celebrated and reverential BBC documentary made by Richard Cawston to accompany the investiture of the current Prince of Wales.

* Ivor Novello biography from BBC Wales

* Ivor Novello biography on BBC South East Wales

The BBC today runs eleven national domestic radio stations, six of which are only available in a digital format: via DAB Digital Radio, UK digital television ( satellite, cable and Freeview ) plus live streams and listen again on the Internet.

The BBC also runs radio stations for three of the nations of the UK.

It was started by the BBC in 1974, and still runs regularly filling BBC Two's overnight schedule as Pages from Ceefax.

NHK also runs 3 national radio services and a number of international radio and television services, akin to the BBC World Service.

Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series ( 26 episodes in all over three broadcast runs ) a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and a fourth in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973.

Founder producer / director ( 1989 – 95 ) was Matthew Robinson who, after Byker Grove, became executive producer of EastEnders, Head of Drama BBC Wales and now runs Khmer Mekong Films in Cambodia.

The BBC, as a public service broadcaster, also runs minority stations such as BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio 6 Music, and local stations throughout the country.

As a result, BBC Four broadcasts from 7 pm to about 4 am every day, with an hours down-time and promotions for CBeebies, before CBeebies channel runs from 6 am until 7 pm.

During the 1990s, the series moved to BBC Two, where it often held a late-night slot, as well as runs during the daytime programmes and even occasionally in an early evening slot.

BBC Radio Jersey broadcasts from 06: 00 starting with former Channel Television presenter Kevin Pamplin ( Mon & Sat also now host of the Afternoon Show Mon-Fri ) or Tim Pryor ( Tue-Fri ) and runs through until 19: 00 when regional evening programming takes over.

To make way for the renovation, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music moved from Broadcasting House to newly built studios in the nearby Western House, with the intention of returning to Broadcasting House when the lease runs out in 2013.

Established under the leadership of Professor Tim Luckhurst, a former editor of the Scotsman and former BBC Editor The Centre runs both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that are accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists.

The fourth edition runs for 5 minutes on BBC World News at selected times of the week featuring one story.

The BBC runs a comprehensive children's website.

In conjunction with the Children's sub-site, the BBC also runs an online revision website using the Bitesize brand and also ran a message board for students.

The firm already runs Star 107. 5, which employs former BBC Radio 1 presenter Mike Read as its mid-morning presenter.

Margaret Fiedler ( now known by her married name of Mags McGinnis ) currently divides her time between music, working in copyright law for the BBC, a sideline in eco-friendly candlemaking ( for which she runs workshops at The Make Lounge craft space in Barnsbury, North London ) and possibly writing a cookbook.

Following a fire, in which one of the wooden platforms was destroyed, the station closed on 24 October 1959, and the BBC Television Centre development now runs on both sides of the railway.