The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

The BBC had run the international news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997.

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 ).

It aired on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of the morning from 1997 to 1999.

* The Human Sexes ( 1997 ) — Discovery / BBC documentary TV series

* 1997: Ivanhoe, a 6-part, 5-hour TV series, a co-production of A & E and the BBC.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

November 1997 saw the release of Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions, a two-disc set largely recorded in 1969 and 1971.

They released the best-of album Death to the Pixies ( 1997 ), the Peel-session compilation Pixies at the BBC ( 1998 ), and the Complete ' B ' Sides compilation ( 2001 ).

The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.

The Sontarans have also appeared as a character in the PC game Destiny of the Doctors released on 5 December 1997, by BBC Multimedia.

Teletubbies is a British BBC children's television series targeted at pre-school viewers and produced from 1997 to 2002 by Ragdoll Productions.

In December 1997, BBC Worldwide released a CD single from the series, based on the show's theme song, called Teletubbies say " Eh-oh !".

Tina Lifford portrayed Winnie Mandela in the 1997 TV drama Mandela and De Klerk ; Sophie Okonedo portrayed her in the BBC television drama Mrs Mandela, first broadcast on BBC Four on 25 January 2010.

The first such show was the BBC series Operation Good Guys, which premiered in 1997.

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

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.

In 1986 Michael Lush died of multiple injuries after bungee jumping for a stunt on a BBC television programme and in 1997, Laura Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, died of massive cranial trauma when she jumped from the top level of the Louisiana Superdome and collided head-first into the concrete-based playing field.

* Jonathan Creek, starring Alan Davies, was a series produced by the BBC from 1997 to 2010 ( Creek was a designer of stage illusions, but generally did not perform magic himself ).

Paul McCartney summarized the importance of Epstein to The Beatles when he was interviewed in 1997 for a BBC documentary about Epstein.

* 1997 interview with Bille August about Smilla's Sense of Snow

He has been featured in an interview segment in a 1997 episode of This Week In Baseball.

In one famous incident in 1997, Anderson interviewed the Bee Gees, and throughout the interview he repeatedly joked about their life and career, ultimately prompting them to walk out.

This work not only discusses all of Rosa's creative life up to 1997, but it also gives a comprehensive biography, lists up to that date his Disney work and presents an extensive interview with Rosa.

" My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music ," she said in a 1997 interview.

On Monday 23 December 2011, in an interview on Turkish newspaper BirGün discussing secret budgets, former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz admitted that Turkish secret agents intentionally started forest fires in Greece between 1995 and 1997 during the Prime Ministership of Tansu Ciller as part of state-sponsored sabotage, resulting in huge damage caused by major forest fires on the islands of the eastern Aegean and in Macedonia.

Years later, in a 1997 CNN / National Security Archive interview, Brzezinski detailed the strategy taken by the Carter administration against the Soviets in 1979:

In an April 13, 1997, interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked Louis Farrakhan to explain the Nation of Islam's view on separation:

In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, " I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe.

In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Falk said " One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, ' Young man, why are you always late?

In a 1997 interview, FARC-EP Commander Alfonso Cano argued that some guerrilla units continued to do so for " political and economic reasons " in spite of the prohibition issued by the leadership.

In a 1997 interview with the BBC's Forbidden Weekend, Romero explained that the script developed into a three-part short story.

* Booknotes interview with Robert Ferrell on The Strange Deaths of President Harding, January 12, 1997.

In a 1997 interview with The Daily Targum, Smith stated " I am shy, but I have an extroverted persona which I can draw on when I need to ," and that she is a " private " actress.

In a lengthy interview conducted by PBS prior to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997, Max Hastings, editor of the Daily Telegraph between 1986 and 1995, discussed the impact of Andrew Morton's and Jonathan Dimbleby's biographies of, respectively, Diana, Princess of Wales and HRH The Prince of Wales on subsequent news coverage of the Royal Family in the UK.

In an interview from 1997 Jones said that the reason he didn't wear the same stage clothes was that he asked the crew if they would be filming on those nights and was told no.

During the 1997 ( and final ) interview, Bin Laden said he sought God's help " to turn America into a shadow of itself ".

" Among the places in which Derrida mentions the Spectacle, a 1997 interview about the notion of the intellectual.

* Derrida ( 1997 ) interview Les Intellectuels: tentative de définition par eux-mêmes.

Years later, in a 1997 CNN / National Security Archive interview, Brzezinski detailed the strategy taken by the Carter administration against the Soviets in 1979:

* Cold War: interview with Brzezinski, The National Security Archive, June 13, 1997.

On 13 May 1997 he spoke with Michael Howard in what became the programme's most notorious interview.

* Booknotes interview with Alan Schom on Napoleon Bonaparte, October 26, 1997.

In a 1997 interview with Andy Diggle for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as " The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk ".