On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

* Channel 4 History-In Boudica's Footsteps

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

It also came fourth in the 2001 Channel 4 poll The 100 Greatest Kids ' TV shows.

In January 1997, the United Kingdom television station Channel 4 carried a news report that suggested that members of the Royal Anglian Regiment had also opened fire on the protesters and could have been responsible for three of the fourteen deaths.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

He was a team captain on the sci-fi quiz series Space Cadets ( 1997 ) on Channel 4, which guest starred William Shatner.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

Blue Jam was later made for television and broadcast on Channel 4 as Jam.

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982.

With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

Before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV.

The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4, along with its Welsh counterpart, was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982.

Throughout ITV's history and until Channel 4 finally became a reality, a perennial dialogue existed between the GPO, the government, the ITV companies and other interested parties, concerning the form such an expansion of commercial broadcasting would take.

With what can crudely be summed up as a clash of ideologies between an expansion of ITV's commercial ethos and a public service approach more akin to the BBC, it was ultimately something of a compromise that eventually led to the formation of Channel 4 as launched in 1982.

The result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by Sianel Pedwar Cymru ( S4C ) ().

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

Since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available.

The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second.

" On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.

On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, an agenda in part set out by its remit which required the provision of programming to minority groups.

Channel 4 co-commissioned Robert Ashley's ground-breaking television opera ' Perfect Lives ', including the use of Lost and Desperate Housewives as part of the experiment, as US broadcasters such as ABC already have an HDTV back catalogue.

John had already begun to improve his Channel forces before the loss of Normandy and he rapidly built up further maritime capabilities after its collapse.

* 26 October 1890: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, who on a private visit to Paris, booked a table to see this quadrille whose reputation had already crossed the Channel.

By this time, an already eager Channel 4 bought the show.

By 2001, Disney Channel was available to approximately 70 million cable and satellite subscribers, largely consisting of those who already received the channel via a basic tier as well at the remnants of its pay subscriber base.

The Weather Channel already has made huge strides with its mobile app but will use Weather Underground's large network of digital forecasting and tracking websites to bolster its digital growth.

" Dish has chosen to be the first distributor to drop The Weather Channel rather than pay the standard industry rates others in the industry have already agreed to pay ", the Weather Channel said in a statement.

By 20 May, Guderian's tanks had reached the sea at Abbeville and closed the trap on the British and French, who were already in retreat to the English Channel ports.

Although many Australians at the time did not have UHF antennas, SBS's VHF licence had already been extended by a year at this stage, and not all antennas had worked well with the low-frequency Channel 0 either.

The US $ 5 billion sale added The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's news empire, which already included Fox News Channel, financial network unit and London's The Times, and locally within New York, the New York Post, along with Fox flagship station WNYW ( Channel 5 ) and MyNetworkTV flagship WWOR ( Channel 9 ).

However, in a Channel 4 documentary aired 3 June 2011, reporter Nick Cook showed an RAF pilot's report, obtained from RAF archives, reporting a UFO incident with a similar red ball of fire on a bombing mission over Germany, but dated 1942 and taken with fact that the term was already in use by radar operators in 1944, must raise some doubt as to the origin of the term

When Fry and Laurie began the series they were already a popular double act ( see Fry and Laurie ) due to regular appearances on Channel 4's Friday Night Live and their own show A Bit of Fry & Laurie ( BBC, 1987 – 95 ).

Although already a celebrity in Ireland, Morgan's big break came over in Britain in the shape of the title-role in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, which ran for three series from 1995.

After the trial the larger cable companies continued a HD service with a small number of channels as National Geographic Channel HD, Discovery HD Showcase, History HD, Film1 HD and Sport1 HD But because no Dutch network had made the move to HD, already broadcasted in widescreen and the quality of the standard-definition PAL signal was good enough for most people, demand was low.

The name Channel Airways officially replaced East Anglian Flying Services on 29 October 1962, although the Channel Airways name had already been in use for several years and painted on aircraft fuselages.

In Britain ( where cable television, although already having a notable number of subscribers, had not yet developed as much as in Central and Northern Europe ), market research gave it a 13 % audience share in cable homes, surpassing both BBC2 and Channel 4 in those homes, with its children's programming ( the station's then most successful field ) increasing to a share of 22. 4 % ( similar to the programmes seen on both Children's BBC and Children's ITV ) ( although in more recent years Sky1's popularity has fallen and the current viewing shares are below 1 %).

Randy Bachman, who already hosts the successful radio show " Randy's Vinyl Tap ", will be the host of a new television show called " Road to Guitar ", which will be airing on the Discovery Channel.

Her transition into mainstream television continued when she obtained her own series on Channel 4, Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, co-written with comedy writer Jim Miller, who was already her main stand-up writer.

However during Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 55 BC, after the Roman cavalry had been unable to cross the Channel, Commius was able to provide a small group of horsemen from his people, suggesting that he may have already had kin in Britain at that time.

An agreement had already been made with the nearest co-channel station, WSSL-FM in upstate South Carolina for it to move further away, however that station was sold to Clear Channel Communications in the interim and the agreement was negated.