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.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

In 1995 Channel 4 introduced Hollyoaks, a soap with a youth focus.

A fourth nationwide commercial network was launched, Channel 4, although Wales introduced a Welsh-language service instead, S4C.

Since the introduction of digital television, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 each introduced a number of digital-only channels.

The Superfame Format was originally introduced with the D2 Channel Bank.

The T1 Extended Superframe ( ESF ) Format ( a 24 bit code composed of 6 framing bits, 6 CRC Error Checking Bits and 12 Signaling Bits ) was introduced with the D5 Channel Bank, a true 24-channel channel bank chassis, which could also be software optioned to use the Superframe framing format.

In Slovenia, the Discovery Channel is one of the most popular channels, with a very wide audience, especially after subtitling in Slovene was introduced.

ET on October 7, 2002, Disney Channel introduced a new on-air appearance with a new logo designed by CA Square ( using an outline of Mickey Mouse's head as its centerpiece ) that was adopted by its international sister channels in May 2003, and unveiling a new graphics designed to fit the network's new look.

Micro Channel Architecture ( MCA ) was a proprietary 16-or 32-bit parallel computer bus introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS / 2 and other computers until the mid 1990s.

Micro Channel architecture was first introduced at the launch of the PS / 2 range in 1987, with three out of the four of the new machines featuring it.

It introduced the technically superior Micro Channel architecture bus for higher speed communication within the system, but failed to maintain the open AT bus ( later called the ISA bus ), which meant that none of the millions of existing add-in cards would function.

In 1971, JVC introduced the first discrete system for four channel quadraphonic sound on vinyl records-CD-4 ( Compatible Discrete Four Channel ) or Quadradisc, as it was called by the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) in the United States.

Geoffrey introduced the figure of Mordred ( whom he calls Modredus ) to the world beyond Wales, detailing that Arthur left Mordred in charge of his throne as he crossed the English Channel to wage war on Emperor Lucius of Rome.

A number of idents were used featuring different celebrities, some local ones made by Channel themselves, were used, and in 2002 a special ident to celebrate the channels 40th Anniversary was introduced featuring former station logos.

The Weather Channel introduced its own morning show, Wake Up With Al, featuring Today weatherman Al Roker, which supplements its regular weather-information program, Your Weather Today.

Rukavina garnered brief national attention from Fox News Channel on March 16, 2007, for a bill he introduced to ban the sale of foreign-made American flags in Minnesota.

In 1923, the first British commercial flying boat service was introduced with flights to and from the Channel Islands.

The Channel 3 North East branding, introduced in 1996, was derided by viewers.

News at Noon was first introduced in 2003 for the duration of the Iraq war, and due to its instant success, it was kept on in the Channel 4's daytime schedule ( except when live Horse Racing was being broadcast ).

* October 1997-Seagate introduced the first Fibre Channel interface hard drive.

Beginning in 1958, regional issues were introduced in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales.

The channel's current identity was introduced on Monday, 20 April 2009 as part of the unifying of all of BBC News ' output, the process which saw the BBC News Channel and BBC World News receive revamps in 2008.

In the early years of TV3 introduced two UK soaps to Irish Audiences Family Affairs ( which was broadcast 18 months after Channel 5 ) and EastEnders ( which was broadcast with advertising simultaneously with BBC 1 ), and also the short lived Australian soap Breakers and the US soap Sunset Beach.