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.

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.

Anderson moved to the BBC in 1996 and the show's name changed to Clive Anderson All Talk and was aired on BBC One.

The Doctor was loomed in the House of Lungbarrow in the mountains of South Gallifrey, but unique among the house's cousins he has a belly button ( Lungbarrow suggests this is because he is a re-incarnation of The Other, but later BBC books featuring the Eighth Doctor suggest he actually has a Gallifreyan father and human mother as stated in the 1996 telemovie ).

Dobbs's novel was also dramatised for radio for BBC World Service in 1996, by Neville Teller, and had two television sequels ( To Play the King and The Final Cut ).

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

In 1996 in the BBC Television series Decisive Weapons which was narrated by Sean Bean.

* Sam Peckinpah has been the subject of two documentaries including the BBC production Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron ( 1992 ), directed by Paul Joyce, and The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage ( 1996 ) directed by Paul Seydor.

In 1996, the BBC applied to the UK Patent Office to register the TARDIS as a trademark.

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.

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.

For 22 years, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue which he joined as a regular team member from the third series in 1974, and continued until death in 1996.

Series one, two, and three aired on the BBC from 1992 to 1995, followed by a series finale in the form of a two-part television movie entitled The Last Shout in 1996.

The Crow Road was adapted for television by Bryan Elsley for the BBC in 1996.

After Lighthill received a green-light from BBC Radio in 1996, he commissioned a script from Tony Mulholland, resulting in a new, two-part adaptation.

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two.

Neverwhere was first broadcast on BBC Two from September 12, 1996.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

* A radio adaptation of the film was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 January 1996 starring Edward Petherbridge and Margot Boyd.

Sir Alec Guinness presented him with a lifetime achievement honour at the inaugural British Comedy Awards in 1990, while he received another such honour at the BBC Centenary Programme in 1996.

( Parkinson BBC1 09 / 11 / 74 & BBC Audiobooks ( 5 February 1996 ))

Hill's 1996 world championship earned him his second BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Award, making him one of only three people to receive the award twice – the others being boxer Henry Cooper and Mansell.

Over a decade later Lumley's career was boosted by her portrayal of the louche, solipsistic and frequently drunken fashion director Patsy Stone, companion to Jennifer Saunders ' Edina Monsoon in the BBC comedy television series Absolutely Fabulous ( 1992 – 1996 ), ( 2001 – 2004 ), and ( 2011 – 2012 ).

In 1996, the Sorbonne-trained Lebanese composer Karim Haddad composed Ce qui dort dans l ' ombre sacrée (" He who sleeps in the sacred shadows ") for Radio France's Presence Festival.

Radio station WKTU began to hold " Freestyle Free for ALL " live concerts in 1996, and formerly held weekend freestyle nights hosted by Judy Torres.

** Ian Hutchby ; Confrontation Talk: Arguments, Asymmetries, and Power on Talk Radio Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996

According to a 1996 radio documentary by the Russian Service of Radio Liberty, the MGB was reduced from being a ministry to a committee because Soviet leaders feared what the MGB might do if the purges were to resume.

* The Paley Center for Media, formerly The Museum of Television & Radio, Beverly Hills, California, 1996

Le Bonne Route, a 1996 album by Deniz Tek of Radio Birdman features a song titled ' Lunatics at the Edge of the World ', which Tek described as " An ode to Syd Barrett and Roky Erickson.

At Christmas 1996, BBC Radio 4 retrieved some of the Peel show recordings from the vault for a late-night repeat, but there seems to be little chance of a commercial release, though some have appeared on a bootleg CD together with some of Stanshall's collaborations with Keith Moon.

A BBC-produced two-hour radio dramatisation of A Wizard of Earthsea was originally broadcast on Radio 4 on December 26, 1996.

In 1994, a collection of Thin Lizzy tracks from the BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions was released, and yet another compilation album was brought out in 1996, called Wild One: The Very Best Of Thin Lizzy.

From mid-1961 to mid-1963, Radio Luxembourg closed each day's broadcasts with " It's Time to Say Goodnight ", a song Francis had recorded especially for this purpose and which was never officially released until 1996.

Her interpretation of the music led to a new album, Twentieth Century Blues ( 1996 ), which focused on the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, followed in 1998 by a recording of The Seven Deadly Sins, with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

In August 1996, the band released the album Turn the Radio Off on the new label, which appealed to fans of ska punk style, and the band began touring throughout the United States.

They are best known for presenting Adam and Joe on BBC Radio 6 Music, and The Adam and Joe Show on Channel 4 from 1996 to 2001.

John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge OBE ( 8 May 1904 – 25 March 1996 ) was a long-time British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio.

The radio show was critically acclaimed, being awarded " Best Radio Comedy " in both 1996 and 1997 at the British Comedy Awards as well as winning a gold Sony Radio Award for best comedy.

* ICAO Annex 10 Volume 1, Radio Navigation Aids, Fifth Edition — July 1996

A BBC Radio 4 adaptation was broadcast on 20 January 1996.

In 1996, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 90-minute radio play called United States about the lives and deaths of Chang and Eng Bunker.

The show was nationally syndicated in June 1996 by Public Radio International and has been national ever since.

* Carpenter, Humphrey, The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3, 1946-1996, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996 ISBN 0-297-81830-9

In 1995, BBC radio producer Paul Quinn approached Kneale with the idea of making a new radio series based around Quatermass, and the resulting project was produced and aired as the five-part serial The Quatermass Memoirs on BBC Radio 3 in the spring of 1996.