Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.

BBC Text pioneered an early form of " on-demand " interactive television, called Enhanced TV.

Similarly, BBC interactive television services all offered a horizontal i-bar along the bottom of television screens, with four colour-coded interactions linked to the four colour buttons on TV remote controls.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

Generally, BBC Red Button offers text and video based services, as well as enhanced television programmes which offer extra information, video or quizzes.

BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

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.

Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.

BBC News 24 was originally available only to analogue cable television subscribers.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

From 1984 to 1992, the BBC adapted all of the original Miss Marple novels as a series titled Miss Marple.

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

In 1989, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first of three series based on Morton's work.

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 '.

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

In 1999 the series came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nation's favourite children's show.

As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series, Charles continues to host his Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally.

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 ).

In 1987, Charles provided the poem track used for the opening credits of the BBC series The Marksman, which he also acted in, and the track is included on the album " The Marksman: Music from the BBC TV series ".

* Cleopatra ( Rome character ), in the HBO / BBC television series Rome

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.

* Conspiracies ( TV series ), a series airing on BBC and TechTV in 2003

In 2008, he presented a reality TV talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC entitled Maestro, starring eight celebrities who are " famous amateurs with a passion for classical music.

He also hosted six series of Clive Anderson's Chat Room on BBC Radio 2 from 2004 – 2009.

* The 1981 BBC series The Borgias, starring Oliver Cotton as Cesare Borgia.

* Clone ( TV series ), a 2008 BBC comedy series

* The Human Animal ( 1994 ) — book and BBC documentary TV series

Burton was banned permanently from BBC productions in November 1974 for writing two newspaper articles questioning the sanity of Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II – Burton reported hating them " virulently " for the alleged promise to wipe out all Japanese people on the planet.

Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.

Reith asked for the government view and was advised not to allow the broadcast because he suspected if it went ahead it would give the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, an excuse to commandeer the BBC.

Three days later, de Gaulle obtained special permission from Winston Churchill to broadcast a speech via BBC Radio from Broadcasting House over France, despite the British Cabinet's objections that such a broadcast could provoke the Pétain government into a closer allegiance with Germany.

It was while raising a family in 1960s and ’ 70s that Churchill began to write short radio dramas and then television plays for BBC radio including The Ants ( 1962 ), Not, Not, Not, Not Enough Oxygen ( 1971 ), and Schreber's Nervous Illness ( 1972 ).

He maintained that he passed this to friends at the BBC, and to the British Naval Intelligence Division through his connections in MI5, eventually gaining the approval of Winston Churchill.

* " Daughter scotches Churchill parrot claim ," BBC News.

Jacob was less comfortable working for Alexander than for Churchill, but a new opportunity arose for him in June 1952, when Haley announced he was to leave the BBC to become editor of The Times.

In the 1950s a pressure group campaigned with the help of Winston Churchill to pass the Television Act 1954 that broke the BBC television monopoly by creating ITV.

John Churchill Dunn, professionally known simply as John Dunn, ( 4 March 1934 in Glasgow, Scotland-27 November 2004 in Croydon, Surrey, England ) was a disc jockey and radio presenter who worked for many years on BBC Radio.

A Number was adapted by Caryl Churchill for television, in a co-production between the BBC and HBO Films.

January 2003 saw the publication of Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, which coincided with Roberts's four-part BBC 2 history series.

In Britain in 2003, he presented The Secrets of Leadership, a four-part history series on BBC 2 about the secrets of leadership which looked at the different leadership styles of Churchill, Hitler, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Churchill's office-bedroom included BBC broadcasting equipment ; Churchill made four wartime broadcasts from the Cabinet War Rooms.

The Gathering Storm is a BBC – HBO co-produced television biographical film about Winston Churchill in the years just prior to World War II.

In 1952, he was made Chairman of Board of Governors of the BBC by Winston Churchill, who had returned to office.

It was a joint production of the BBC and NBC, made in 1974 in the Hallmark Hall of Fame ; it starred Richard Burton as Churchill and Virginia McKenna as Clementine Churchill.

*" War of the Unknown Warriors "-Speech by Winston Churchill ; July 14, 1940 ; BBC Broadcast, London

These include sets for Shakespeare, Churchill, Darwin, British Ships, Concorde, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Hastings, the BBC, Good King Wenceslas, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Social Reformers, Ely Cathedral, Abbotsbury Swannery and the Millennium.

27 / 5 / 1967 ), A Touch of Churchill, A Touch of Hitler ( BBC tx.

depicted a little-known October 1938 meeting between Soviet spy Guy Burgess, then a young man working for the BBC, and Winston Churchill.

He was also a voice artist, recording dozens of plays for BBC Radio Drama where his roles ranged from J. Edgar Hoover and Orson Welles to Winston Churchill.