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.

This made it possible to connect a 5¼ ” floppy disc drive as used by BBC Micro owners or a more common 3½ ” drive.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Examples include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ( 1998 ) ( wherein the slang is translated via subtitles in one scene ); The Limey ( 1999 ); Sexy Beast ( 2000 ); Snatch ( 2000 ); Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ); and Austin Powers in Goldmember ( 2002 ); It's All Gone Pete Tong ( 2004 ), after BBC radio disc jockey Pete Tong whose name is used in this context as rhyming slang for " wrong "; Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 ).

For the first few years the shows were recorded live, direct to 16-inch transcription disc, which required the cast to adhere closely to the script, but by Series 4 the BBC had adopted the use of magnetic tape.

With magnetic tape, these effects could be produced in advance and the BBC engineers were able to create highly complex, tightly edited effects ' stings ' that would have been very difficult ( if not impossible ) to perform using foley or disc.

In April 2009, BBC / Opus Arte released a Blu-ray disc of a July 2006 performance of Federico Moreno Torroba's Luisa Fernanda with Plácido Domingo and Nancy Herrera, recorded at the Teatro Real de Madrid with Jesús López-Cobos conducting.

The disc featured on BBC Radio 3 ’ s ‘ In Tune ’ on Monday 26 September, and on Radio 3 ’ s Breakfast Show on Tuesday 27 September.

" One Year On " can also be found in transcript form in a booklet which was included in the DVD set of Live Aid, the first disc of which features the BBC news report, as well as the Band Aid video.

Some live performances of Monteux conducting the Metropolitan Opera, and among others the San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, BBC Symphony and London Symphony orchestras survive alongside his studio recordings, and some have been issued on compact disc.

Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox are double CD editions with the second disc containing outtakes, BBC session recordings and newly remixed versions of two of that particular album's tracks.

His popularity in the UK owed much to the championing of BBC disc jockey Noel Edmonds.

Steve Lamacq ( born 16 October 1965 ), sometimes known by his nicknames Lammo ( given to him by John Peel ) or " The Cat " ( due to his ability as a goalkeeper ) is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio stations BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 2.

In 1989 he made his first programme for BBC Radio 1 ( producer: John Walters ) under the name " Steve Nage ", parodying the Simon Bates mid-Atlantic, nasal style of Radio 1 disc jockey.

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 '.

It featured songs recorded for BBC sessions between 1969 to 1972, Radio 1 jingles recorded in 1973 and 1974, and on the second disc, songs recorded live at the Paris Theatre, London, in August 1972.

Hedgehog Sandwich and the first disc of The Memory Kinda Lingers were later combined on a BBC double-length cassette and double-CD set.

From 1991 up until the early 2000s, the BBC also used Laser disc technology to play out the channel idents.

A session for BBC Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel, subsequently released on the Live at the BBC album, offered up further evidence of the band's inventiveness.

Tony Blackburn ( born 29 January 1943 ) is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the " pirate " stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967.

In the episode, Satan disrupts Deborah's wedding to Irish jockey Rory O ' Donnell by taking the form of BBC reporter Jill Dando and accusing the presiding vicar of being a Satan worshipper ( which he actually is ).

The first presenters were the former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Pete Brady, Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable.

* Jimmy Young, former BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 disc jockey

Bands that followed, like Anhrefn and Datblygu, found support from BBC Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel, one of the few DJ ’ s outside Wales to champion Welsh language music.

* Jimmy Young ( disc jockey ) ( born 1921 ), former BBC radio broadcaster

On March 26, 1987, the trio's songs begin receiving spins on BBC radio from the legendary English disc jockey John Peel.

He also worked as a disc jockey for 194 Radio City, and four years at BBC Radio 1 alongside Tony Blackburn's weekend morning show.

With this line-up they recorded their first Peel session on January 3, 1988, with John Peel, the alternative disk jockey of BBC Radio One.

* John Peel, the late BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, radio presenter and music journalist.

The Ruts were an English reggae-influenced punk rock band, notable for the 1979 Top 10 hit " Babylon's Burning ", and an earlier single " In a Rut ", which was not a hit but was highly regarded and regularly played by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, John Peel.

During the 1980s and 1990s he was a BBC Radio 1 disc jockey and also a regular presenter of Top of the Pops.

* The well known BBC Radio 1 Disc jockey, John Peel, DJed at the Nag's Head pub ( now the Wollaston Inn ) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He became a disc jockey through youth club discos in his home town before he sent a successful audition tape to his local station, BBC Radio Stoke.

* Dave Spoon, BBC radio disc jockey and dance music producer

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

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.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

Edinburgh is also home to a flourishing group of contemporary composers such as Nigel Osborne, Peter Nelson, Lyell Cresswell, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Edward Harper, Robert Crawford, Robert Dow and John McLeod whose music is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and throughout the UK.

A version of " Two Tribes " was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.

Chapman and John Cleese wrote professionally for the BBC during the 1960s, primarily for David Frost, but also for Marty Feldman.

* " John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth ", programme on BBC Radio 4, 11. 30 am, 12 November 2010

* Archive BBC TV interview of John Wyndham in 1960 Requires Realplayer

* BBC interview of John Wyndham from 1960 on the nature of evil in his novels-part of a series on writers ( somehow restricted to viewing only in UK )

* BBC Archive on John Lennon

* BBC News ' John Ashcroft profile

* Phllby has a key role in Mike Ripley's short story " Gold Sword " published in ' John Creasey's Crime Collection 1990 ' which was chosen as BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Story to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day on 6th June 1994.

A BBC history series What the Romans Did for Us, written and presented by Adam Hart-Davis and first broadcast in 2000, takes its title from John Cleese's rhetorical question " What have the Romans ever done for us?

At 15 he founded a punk rock band, The Ripchords, whose sole release, an eponymous EP with four tracks, was championed by the BBC Radio One DJ John Peel.

In 1964, the BBC filmed a 6-episode TV adaptation under the title Smuggler's Bay, starring future Doctor Who stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton as John Trenchard and Ratsey, respectively.

There is also a 90-minute BBC radio version, starring Richard Pearce ( BBC Radio's Tintin, as well ) as John Trenchard.

The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

Sutch's album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time, despite the fact that Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins performed on it and helped write it.

In 1991, the BBC broadcast a new version of John Barton's ' The War that Never Ends ', which had first been performed on stage in the 1960s.