Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

* House of Cards at BBC Four

In October 2011, BBC Four premiered the made-for-TV comedy film Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.

It aired as part of PBS ' Great Performances series on 6 October 2010 and on BBC Four on 12 December 2010.

* Multiverse-Radio-discussion on BBC Four with Melvyn Bragg

On September 7, 2010, the song was the subject-matter of the BBC Radio Four series, " Soul Music ".

The novel has been adapted by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio Four.

* Tristan da Cunha: The story of Asthma Island, part 1 & part 2, BBC Four ( 2008 )

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.

Subsequently in 2006, Michael Sheen played him in the BBC Four drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa !.

The BBC has also begun using their digital channels BBC Three and BBC Four to build a following for off-beat series like The Thick of It.

A 2010 television adaptation by Howard Overman for BBC Four borrowed some of the characters and some minor plot elements of the novel to create a new story.

It was broadcast on BBC Four on 16 December 2010.

In the 2003-5 stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited ( filmed for BBC Four ), Paddick and Williams ( and therefore Julian and Sandy ) were played by Nigel Harrison and Robin Sebastian.

In October 2003 a successful stage show called Round the Horne ... Revisited opened in London, compiled by Series Four co-writer Brian Cooke from original scripts, and ran until April 2005 – also siring three nationwide tours and a BBC television film.

The play was also filmed for television, directed by Nick Wood, and was broadcast on BBC Four on 13 June 2004, as part of a Summer in the Sixties season, subsequently airing on BBC Two on 1 January 2005.

* " Round the Horne … Revisited " on BBC Four

An episode of Arena, broadcast on BBC Four on 1 January 2007, focused on The Archers.

The show at the Lowry in Salford was filmed and broadcast on BBC Four on 13 September 2008.

* Aquila ( TV series ), a BBC TV production for children based on the Norriss book

In production of the countdown sequence, Clive Norman filmed images around the United Kingdom, Richard Jopson in the United States, while BBC News cameramen filmed images from Iraq, Beijing ( Great Wall of China ), Bund of Shanghai, Africa, as well as areas affected by the 2004 Asian Tsunami and others.

After a string of successful films, including the comedies The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) and The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), as well as dramas like Dead of Night, Scott of the Antarctic and The Cruel Sea, Ealing Studios finally ceased production in 1958, and the studios were taken over by the BBC for television production.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

In the BBC television production of Graves ' novel, Piso and his wife, Plancina, were indeed at the root of the plot to poison Germanicus, with tacit consent from Tiberius ' mother, Livia, working through a local poisoner named Martina.

* Great Rift: Africa's wild heart ( TV series ) A BBC / Animal Planet production

* Edward Baker-Duly in the 2010 BBC Wales / Masterpiece TV production Upstairs, Downstairs

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

A 30-minute TV short film A Boy In Darkness ( also made in 2000 and adapted from Peake's novella ) was the first production from the BBC Drama Lab.

* The Romans ( Doctor Who ), an episode of the BBC production, Doctor Who

Ron Cook, then 35, in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare production of the play, was closest in age, and bore some facial resemblance to the Society of Antiquaries portrait.

In 1963, the BBC began production of the longest-running science-fiction television series ever, Doctor Who, about a time travelling alien called the Doctor.

A common misconception is that the Doctor Who production team at BBC Wales were so impressed by how much more resilient the toy sonic screwdriver was than the real prop, that they obtained moulds of the original prototype of the toy to use in the 2006 series, in fact, this was not the case.

* 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.

Another Smallfilms production, Bagpuss, came top of a BBC poll to find the favourite children's programme.

The four-act version was first played on the radio in a BBC production and is still sometimes performed.

The production was released on CD as part of the " Classic Radio Theatre " series by BBC Audio ( ISBN 978-1408426937 ).

The production was released on audio cassette by Hodder Headline Audiobooks by arrangement with BBC Enterprises ( ISBN 1-85998-218-2 ).

The production was released on audio cassette by the BBC Radio Collection ( ISBN 0-563-47803-9 ).

As part of the production, Smallfilms had to send the scripts to the BBC, but on reading the script for episode three, they asked Postgate to remove some " Clanger-speak ", explaining that although whistled, " you can ’ t say that on children ’ s television [...] you just can ’ t ".

The retrospective show Before the Fringe, broadcast during the early years of BBC 2, took its title from this production.

* Play School ( UK TV series ) – the original BBC production

He played the title role in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Life and Death of King John ( 1984 ).