A one-off TV programme " Viz-The Documentary " was shown on Britain's Channel 4 in 1990, spoofing serious investigative TV shows like Panorama or Dispatches while telling the story of Viz.

Two years later he transferred from the Tonight programme to Panorama.

Paxman's first book, A Higher Form of Killing ( 1982 ), written with then BBC colleague and friend Robert Harris, arose out of an edition of the Panorama programme they had made together on biological and chemical warfare.

On 30 January 1984, a Panorama programme, " Maggie's Militant Tendency ", was broadcast.

" An opinion poll commissioned by the BBC television programme Panorama in December 1968 found that 8 per cent of immigrants believed that they had been treated worse by white people since Powell's speech, 38 per cent would like to return to their country of origin if offered financial help, 47 per cent supported immigration control, with 30 per cent opposed.

Bashir came to wide prominence in 1995 when he interviewed ( for the BBC's Panorama programme ) Diana, Princess of Wales about her failed marriage to the Prince of Wales.

* Transcript of BBC Panorama programme titled ' Collusion ', 23 June 2002

In 1984 Gerry Gable was commissioned by the BBC to produce research for a BBC Panorama programme " Maggie's Militant Tendency ".

There are many known cases in which the disabled have been abused by staff of a " care institution ", such as the case revealed in a BBC Panorama programme on a Castlebeck care home ( Winterbourne View ) near Bristol which led to its closure and the suspension and sacking of some of the staff.

Allegations of far-right sympathies were made against Howarth in a controversial January 1984 Panorama programme, " Maggie's Militant Tendency ".

Whilst there he was one of a number of cadets interviewed for an edition of the BBC's Panorama programme.

She then went on to meet the then editor of Panorama Tim Gardam at a wedding, and pestered him until he gave her a job as a researcher at the BBC on the programme in 1989.

Contentious programme making included the impartial reporting of the Falklands War on Newsnight, the Nationwide general election special with Margaret Thatcher in 1983, the coverage of the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ), the Real Lives fracas, the Panorama libel action and its reporting of the U. S. bombing of Libya and the controversy surrounding the programme Secret Society which took place in light of MI5's vetting of BBC employees.

He was a regular presenter of shows such as the political programme Gallery, Panorama and general election and budget specials.

In December 2011 when 30-year-old British government papers were released, it was revealed that as director-general Trethowan personally intervened in an attempt to censor a 1981 edition of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Panorama about Britain's intelligence agencies.

The spaghetti tree hoax is a famous 3-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools ' Day 1957 by the BBC current affairs programme Panorama.

The blast was later attributed to dissident Irish Republican terrorists and it is suggested the BBC Panorama programme which named individuals as participants in the Omagh bomb was the motive.

The interview was conducted by Martin Bashir in a special edition of the flagship BBC programme Panorama, in which she maintained her innocence.

In 1955 he become the producer of the Corporation's first weekly current affairs programme Panorama at the age of just twenty-five.

In February 2011 Tim Collins appeared on the BBC news programme Panorama in a special entitled ' Forgotten Heroes '.

Its first incarnation ( 1956 – 2008 ) was the second longest-running programme on British television after Panorama.

Having been a football pundit for BBC since the mid-80s, he left for ITV in 1994, following a legal dispute with the corporation over allegations made against him in a Panorama programme.

Dimbleby is the son of the World War II war correspondent Richard Dimbleby, who was later to become presenter of the BBC TV current affairs programme Panorama, and a younger brother of David Dimbleby, also a current affairs commentator and presenter of BBC programmes.

Queiroz was often seen conducting interviews with BBC programmes, such as Match of the Day, as at the time Alex Ferguson refused to speak with the BBC after allegations by the BBC's Panorama programme that Ferguson's younger son Jason, and then Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp, had been involved in corruption regarding cuts in transfer fees.

In the 2000 Channel 4 programme The 100 Greatest TV Ads, Terry Lovelock, the director of several of these commercials, revealed that he found Rossiter difficult to work with, and that he used to jokingly refer to Collins as " The Prop ".

Graham McCann said the programme succeeded as it challenged the " convention that television should not acknowledge that it is television, the show made no attempt to hide its cameras, allowed the microphone boom to intrude and often revealed other nuts and bolts of studio technology.

In a programme screened by the BBC in early 2004, paying tribute to the series, it was revealed that Jay and Lynn had drawn on information provided by two insiders from the governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, namely Marcia Williams and Bernard Donoughue.

In the resulting furore Lenihan's campaign manager Bertie Ahern either deliberately or accidentally revealed on a radio programme that Duffy had interviewed Lenihan.

The programme revealed that Gibb's paternal great-grandfather was born into poverty in Paisley and went on to become a decorated soldier and his paternal great-grandmother was a midwife.

On 11 October 2007 Faithfull revealed she suffered from hepatitis C on the UK television programme This Morning, and that she had first been diagnosed with the condition 12 years before.

Politically, she was left-wing and publicly supported Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli dissident who revealed Israel's nuclear weapons programme.

At the end of the programme, they revealed that he had left the show, and would not be returning.

The programme has a strong following, revealed by various unpopular attempts in the past to change the broadcast arrangements.

This programme revealed the interesting information that on all their maps A-Z print a non-existent trap street so that they can tell if a map has been illegally copied from theirs, a technique used by several publishers of reference works ( see fictitious entry ).

The programme revealed that Wilson had apparently discovered medieval walls and yard-paving.

The BSC noted that the programme makers had deliberately given warning signals to suggest the material might be dubious and thus rejected Follett's complaints against the show as it successfully revealed the dangers of how public figures were willing to speak " with apparent authority about matters they do not understand ".

A Channel 4 Dispatches programme interviewed Marsden and it was revealed that the reporter in question, had been suspended for phone hacking, although he denied it.

In October 1998, the News of the World newspaper revealed that Bacon had taken cocaine, and he was subsequently sacked from his job as a presenter on the high-profile children's programme.

The report revealed the base was " being expanded in a multimillion-pound programme " and becoming " increasingly vital to US intelligence and military operations ".

He also revealed how the band had, until that time, considered the programme a complete joke.

Also notable was that each programme finished with a zany situational competition in which Johnny revealed considerable talent as a character actor.

He is most famous for his role in the case of Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician who revealed Israel's secret nuclear bomb programme.

Work on finding the so-called ' lost medieval sacristy of Henry III ' at Westminster Abbey during an episode of the Time Team television programme revealed that the abbey originally had two separate sacristies.

A road test on the BBC programme Top Gear revealed that the presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, could put his fingers into the gap below the rear lights and above the rear bumper.

The latest JNLR figures revealed that this programme enjoyed a listenership of 215, 000, over-taking rival Drivetime on RTÉ Radio 1 for the first time ever.

In an interview with Fergal Keane for the BBC's Newsnight programme on 8 February 2006, Githongo revealed what he claims is taped evidence proving that Kiraitu Murungi attempted to impede his inquiries.

On 9 July 2010, as well as the announcement that GMTV had been axed to make way for Daybreak, it was also revealed that Lorraine's new programme Lorraine would replace GMTV with Lorraine On 15 July 2010, Lorraine presented her last show before leaving, and throughout the Summer holidays Fiona Phillips, Emma Bunton and Kirsty Gallacher each presented her show for two weeks.