BBC Radio 2 presenter Steve Wright uses factoids extensively ( and occasionally incorrectly ; one recent example ( September 2012 ) defined a Googol as the number 1 followed by < i > one million </ i > zeroes.

Following the departure of Steve Rider from the BBC, Lineker, who is a keen recreational golfer with a handicap of four, became the new presenter for the BBC's golf coverage.

Starting in 1989, Palin appeared as presenter in a series of travel programmes made for the BBC.

In 1969-70 he was presenter of The Golden Silents on BBC TV, which attempted authentic showings of silent films, without the commentaries with which they were usually shown on television before then.

After the 1956 England tour, Benaud stayed behind in London to take a BBC presenter training course.

He is best remembered in the UK for his weekly role as presenter of Points of View, a BBC Television programme in which viewers ' letters criticising or praising the BBC were broadcast.

* Phil Mercer, radio presenter on the BBC

That same year Sykes signed a contract as scriptwriter and variety show presenter for the newly formed independent television company ATV, while continuing to write and perform for the BBC.

* Owen Thomas, BBC presenter

* Cerrie Burnell, Actress, singer, playwright, and television presenter for the BBC children's channel CBeebies.

Caesar then went on to get his first " paid gig " on the Rod Lucas Show on BBC Radio Kent and shortly afterwards they both moved to the newly created Invicta Radio and, in a similar manner to BBC Radio 1 presenter Steve Wright, copied a style from American DJ Rick Dees that has subsequently become known worldwide as the ' Zoo Format '.

* Michael Clarke ( radio presenter ), Station Manager of Lisburn's 98FM and BBC broadcaster

* Craig Doyle ( BBC and RTÉ presenter )

* Maryam Moshiri ( BBC News presenter )

1980s-present ), Scottish BBC TV presenter

** Previously co-produced and served as presenter in a documentary for BBC television called In Search of the Spirit.

* Yan Wong, presenter BBC Bang Goes the Theory

In 2006, the BBC Somerset presenter Adam Thomas, in a BBC One regional programme Inside Out West, investigated why Avon refuses to die.

The BBC presenter David Hepworth, conducting the interview, had attempted to provide a list of addresses to which potential donations should be sent ; Geldof interrupted him in mid-flow and shouted: " Fuck the address, let's get the numbers!

* Eddie Waring ( 1910 – 1986 ), rugby league coach, commentator and television presenter famous for hosting the BBC game show, It's a Knockout.

Taking part in the programme along with Monkhouse were Leslie Thomas, the author of The Virgin Soldiers, and the BBC Radio 2 presenter John Dunn.

In production of the countdown sequence, Clive Norman filmed images around the United Kingdom, Richard Jopson in the United States, while BBC News cameramen filmed images from Iraq, Beijing ( Great Wall of China ), Bund of Shanghai, Africa, as well as areas affected by the 2004 Asian Tsunami and others.

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

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

" They wouldn't even consider getting out of bed for the $ 13m (£ 8m ) Goldman Sachs ' boss Lloyd Blankfein was paid last year ," writes Richard Anderson, a BBC Business reporter.

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

In the 1960 BBC series based on Shakespeare's history plays, An Age of Kings, Paul Daneman played Richard.

* BBC: The excavation of Richard III's coffin

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.

At the meeting, BBC reporter Richard Black coined the phrase " climate tourists " to describe some delegates who attended " to see Africa, take snaps of the wildlife, the poor, dying African children and women ".

* Hugh Janes in the 1960 BBC series An Age of Kings, which contained all the history plays from Richard II to Richard III.

* Within the foundations of the Dome in 1998, a time capsule was buried by Katy Hill and Richard Bacon, two of the then current presenters of the long running BBC children's programme Blue Peter.

* Richard Dawkins discusses The Selfish Gene on the BBC World Book Club

In the 1960s the BBC produced the earliest of Richard Waring's domestic comedies, Marriage Lines ( 1961 – 66 ), with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales, and a then-rare workplace comedy with The Rag Trade ( 1961 – 63, 1977 – 78 ).

* Warbeck was portrayed by British actor Richard Warwick in the 1972 BBC television series The Shadow of the Tower.

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

The story of Caroline's marriage to George and her battle to be recognized as queen consort served as the basis for the 1996 BBC docudrama A Royal Scandal with Susan Lynch as Caroline and Richard E. Grant as George IV.

In his spare time he made more BBC broadcasts, during the course of which he met Flight Lieutenant Richard Murdoch.

* Free and Easy ( with Richard Murdoch ) ( BBC, 1953 )

* Show for the Telly ( with Richard Murdoch ) ( BBC, 1956 )

( His grandson Sam Troughton played one of Robin's colleagues in the 2006 BBC TV Series of the same name, and Patrick himself would make an appearance on the Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene.

Another notable early radio drama, one of the first specially written for the medium in the UK, was Danger by Richard Hughes, broadcast by the BBC on January 15, 1924, about a group of people trapped in a Welsh coal mine.