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.

Chindōgu and its creator Kenji Kawakami also became a regular feature on a children's television show produced by the BBC called It'll Never Work, a show in a similar vein as the BBC's Tomorrow's World ; however, It'll Never Work usually focused more on wacky and humorous gadgets than on serious scientific and technological advances.

He also became better known with a radio broadcast ( on the BBC's new " Third Programme ") of Henry Purcell's Come ye Sons of Art.

He then became a presenter on the BBC's Scoutabout programme, where he entered into the top eight of BBC sports reporters.

Roger Wright became controller of the Proms in October 2007, whilst retaining responsibility for BBC Radio 3 and taking up a broader role controlling the BBC's classical music output across all media.

In 1963 it became part of the BBC's Current Affairs department, and it started to become more news-orientated.

Between 1991 and 2001 she was married to Sir Ian Holm ( and in 1998 after he was knighted she became Lady Holm ) and they appeared together as Pod and Homily in the BBC's 1993 adaptation of The Borrowers.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Light Programme ( along with the BBC's two other national programmes, the Home Service and the Third Programme ) gradually became available also on what was known at the time as VHF, as the BBC developed a network of local FM transmitters.

Having progressed through newspaper, radio and television journalism, he became the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent from 1992 until 2000.

The Voice UK lifted the BBC's ratings once again as The Voice UK became more popular than ITV's Britain's Got Talent.

For years, The Generation Game was one of the strong shows in the BBC's Saturday night line-up, and became the number one gameshow on British television during the 1970s, regularly gaining over 21 million viewers.

Cotton married Mabel E. Gregory in 1921 and they had two sons, Ted and Bill Cotton, who later became the BBC's head of variety.

His relaxed, conversational style was exceptional at a time when most of the BBC's presentation was extremely formal, and his programmes became highly popular as a result.

Basket of Light, which followed in mid 1969, was their greatest commercial success, thanks to a surprise hit single, " Light Flight " which became popular through its use as theme music for a TV drama series Take Three Girls ( the BBC's first drama series to be broadcast in colour ) for which the band also provided incidental music.

Following the departure of Morecambe and Wise from the BBC in 1978, The Two Ronnies became the BBC's flagship light entertainment programme, regularly gaining the top viewing figures in the critical Christmas Day audience battle.

After having returned to the Film series in 1983, Norman became increasingly irritated by the BBC's reluctance to screen the programme at a regular time, and in 1998 he finally accepted an offer to work for BSkyB, where he remained for three years.

1969 saw the start of his weekday show and then it became his long-running radio show Sunday Soapbox which came from the BBC's Birmingham studios.

Additionally, Ding is the youngest player to make a 147 during a televised session ( a record previously held by Ronnie O ' Sullivan ), and became the first Chinese snooker player in the history of BBC's coverage to make a televised maximum.

In 1993, at the age of thirty-five, he became the second youngest Channel Controller in the BBC's history when he was promoted to succeed Yentob, who had been promoted to Controller of BBC One, as Controller of BBC Two.

In 1995, he became the first architect to deliver the BBC's annual Reith Lectures.

He became a familiar face on television when he played Jon in the BBC's landmark 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, the lead in a BBC serialisation of Nicholas Nickleby ( 1968 ), Uriah Heep in the 1974 BBC version of David Copperfield and the male lead in the sitcom Rings On Their Fingers ( 1978 – 80 ) with Diane Keen.

Alasdair David Gordon Milne ( born 8 October 1930 ) is a former BBC producer who became Controller of BBC Scotland, the BBC's Director of Programmes and then Director-General of the BBC in July 1982.

Following the war, For the Children recommenced on Sunday 7 July 1946, with a twenty minute slot every Sunday afternoon and the addition of programmes for pre-school children under the banner For The Very Young., and over the years they became an established feature of the early afternoons on the BBC's main channel BBC One.

In 1981 he became the main presenter of the BBC's flagship Nine O ' Clock News.

The theory of international law, which in the nineteenth century became common to virtually all writers in Europe and America, broke this unity and this universality.

After the months in Europe, she returned to Boston and became active in church and community life.

Due to Pope Sylvester II's reintroduction of the abacus with very useful modifications, it became widely used in Europe once again during the 11th century

One of these became the Latin alphabet, which was spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their empire.

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

As a result, the Atlantic became and remains the major artery between Europe and the Americas ( known as transatlantic trade ).

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

From Cluny the custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac order, which became the largest and most extensive network of monasteries in Europe.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

With this title and its lands, he became the most powerful man in Portugal and one of the richest men in Europe.

Amalric became alarmed and sent Frederick de la Roche, Archbishop of Tyre, to seek help from the kings and nobles of Europe, but no assistance was forthcoming.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

Gifted and industrious, Adalbert soon became well-known all over Europe.

Shortly after Napoleon became First Consul and then emperor, using the office to spread the revolution throughout Europe.

These early print advertisements were used mainly to promote books and newspapers, which became increasingly affordable with advances in the printing press ; and medicines, which were increasingly sought after as disease ravaged Europe.

With the Renaissance, tyrannicide — or assassination for personal or political reasons — became more common again in Western Europe.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes ; the following year, he re-recorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin, which became a massive hit all over Europe.

His reputation so increased the fame of the University of Leiden, especially as a school of medicine, that it became popular with visitors from every part of Europe.

Because it was extraordinarily expensive the Pascaline became little more than a toy, and status symbol, for the very rich both in France and throughout Europe.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

By the 18th century an increasing number of new plants had arrived in Europe from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide and a larger number of plants became available for study.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

Their works became more widely known in Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, beginning with the Latin translation of Jābir ’ s Kitab al-Kimya in 1144.

As the Turkish incursion into Europe started, Croatia once again became a border area.