In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

* BBC page about The World of Beachcomber

The BBC radio commentary on the final day of the innings ( 6 June 1994 ), by Dave Roberts, was being broadcast around the world live via the BBC World Service network, and in the UK on BBC Radios 1, 2 & 4 as well as the majority of BBC Local radio stations.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

The BBC had run the international news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997.

The BBC News Channel moved from the Studio N8 set ( now home to BBC World News ) to what was the home of the national news in Studio N6, allowing the Channel to share its set with the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Ten – with other bulletins moving to studio TC7.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

The Falkland Islands Radio Service ( FIRS ) operates a radio network in conjunction with the BBC World Service, while the British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS ) operates three networks of its own.

KTV Ltd. also operate two relay stations, KTV Radio Nova ( a rebroadcast of BBC World Service ) and KTV Radio Nova Saint FM ( a rebroadcast of Saint FM ).

He also took part in a few radio broadcasts for the Eastern Service of the BBC.

The Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation ( GBC ) operates Radio Gibraltar on both FM and AM, broadcasting a mix of local programming in English and Spanish, and retransmissions of the BBC World Service.

It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) and when this is viewed as a time zone the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United Kingdom, such as the BBC World Service, the Royal Navy, the Met Office and others particularly in Arab countries, such as the Middle East Broadcasting Center and OSN.

Dobbs's novel was also dramatised for radio for BBC World Service in 1996, by Neville Teller, and had two television sequels ( To Play the King and The Final Cut ).

Category: BBC World Service

) He continued to read the Times, which was not generally available in the USSR, listened to the BBC World Service, and was an avid follower of cricket.

The BBC World Service Arabic broadcasts on 91. 5 FM in Tripoli, Benghazi, and Misrata.

Ulaanbaatar has 20 FM stations, including foreign radio stations BBC World Service, VOA, and Inner Mongolian Radio.

BBC World Service.

* 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, " high-definition " ( then defined as at least 200 lines ) service.

* Audio: Peter Singer in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum

The BBC World Service has a station based in Grand Anse in southern Mahé which is also listened to in parts of East Africa.

* BBC World Service 94. 3 MHz ( Freetown ), 94. 5 MHz Bo and 95. 3 MHz Kenema.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

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

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational / home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

The Electron is widely misquoted as operating at 1. 79 MHz after measurements derived from speed testing against the thoroughly 2 MHz BBC Micro for various pieces of ' common software '

Note that this is subtly different to the ' thanks ' list in the original BBC Model B.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

In the BBC Three Sitcom Mongrels the character of Destiny is an Afghan Hound.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

Here is a table of the contents of the BBC Red Button ( as of December 2009 )

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.