During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a modified version of the NRC Telephone Talking Clock was transmitted over television channel CPAC while the House of Commons was not sitting.

The NRC provides a Telephone Talking Clock service ; voice announcements of Eastern Time are made every 10 seconds, followed by a tone indicating the exact time.

She also presented a number of gameshows including the dating show Three's a Crowd, LWT show Talking Telephone Numbers, the second series of Granada TV show God's Gift and Fanorama, which featured a young David Mitchell as a team captain in his first television appearance.

* Talking Telephone Numbers

She presented Talking Telephone Numbers with Phillip Schofield for ITV upon leaving Live & Kicking, until replaced by Claudia Winkleman.

Their debut album, Black and White ( originally titled Talking To God On The Great White Telephone ) and released by Epic Records in 1985 was critically well received, but by 1987 their record label was exerting pressure on the band to follow up with another album of a soulful direction, with the resulting album Moving Target alienating the band's fan base.

* Talking About Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions ( 2010 )

" Talking machine " was the comprehensive generic term, but in the early 20th Century the general public was increasingly applying the word " phonograph " indiscriminately to both cylinder and disc machines and to the records they played.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

Talking Heads was an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.

Their first album, Talking Heads: 77, which did not contain the earlier single, was released soon thereafter.

Talking privately with Polenin, the submarine's political officer, Suslov, expresses some confidence in Vostrikov, but Polenin asserts that the captain was " lucky today, that's all.

His original or birth name was Cuauhtlatoatzin ( alternately rendered as Quauhtatoatzin, Guauhtlatoatzin, or Cuatliztactzin ), which has been translated as " Talking Eagle " in the Nahuatl language.

" De Forest's process continued to be used through 1927 in the United States for dozens of short Phonofilms ; in the UK it was employed a few years longer for both shorts and features by British Sound Film Productions, a subsidiary of British Talking Pictures, which purchased the primary Phonofilm assets.

It was not " Germany's First Talking Film ", as the marketing had it, but it was the first to be released in the United States.

David Byrne ( born May 14, 1952 ) is a Scottish-born American musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991.

Rei Momo ( 1989 ) was the first solo album by Byrne, after leaving Talking Heads, that features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles including popular dances including merengue, Cuban Son, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba, and charanga.

A second set of six Talking Heads followed a decade later, which was darker and more disturbing.

Mengelberg and Toscanini both led the Philharmonic in recording sessions for the Victor Talking Machine Company and Brunswick Records, initially in a recording studio ( for the acoustically-recorded Victors, all under Mengelberg ) and eventually in Carnegie Hall as electrical recording was developed.

One was, Talking God.

" They knew it was, Talking God.

He was recruited, along with other musicians from differing genres such as Adrian Belew, to perform and record with Talking Heads, a pioneering new wave act.

Though he never officially joined Talking Heads, he was a de facto member of the group for most of the ' 80s, appearing on one of their studio albums, several solo albums, and multiple tours until they disbanded officially in 1992.

The Community Talking Picture Company of Shreveport gave Olla its first talking movies, and later a more modern theater was erected.

Red Oak was also the exterior location for filming " True Stories ", a film by David Byrne of Talking Heads released in 1986.

The band's music was characterized by a psychedelic post-punk sound sometimes reminiscent of The B-52's and Talking Heads, whimsical yet heartfelt lyrics, and the imploring, girlish voice of Björk, accompanied by Einar Orn's erratic vocal performances.

A documentary produced by Gayle K. Yamada, Maxine Hong Kingston: Talking Story, was released in 1990.

When Mike Patton was questioned in 2008 by co-hosts of Fuse TV's Talking Metal On Fuse if a Faith No More reunion was a possibility, Patton replied " I highly doubt it ", but also stated in a January 2008 interview with Artisan News that he " wouldn't rule it out ", adding " I don't think we would need to reform the band, but maybe there's other things we could do together.

Talking Heads was to have appeared, but David Byrne was currently busy with his film True Stories at the time of the concert.

* Associated Talking Pictures, a British film studio of the 1930s later renamed as Ealing Studios

* October 2 – The four-part serial Talking to a Stranger, acclaimed as one of the finest British television dramas of the 1960s, begins transmission in the Theatre 625 strand on BBC2.

In 1929, Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the world's largest manufacturer of phonographs ( including the famous " Victrola ") and phonograph records ( in British English, " gramophone records ").

Based in the city of Hannover ( the founder's birthplace ), the company had links with the U. S. Victor Talking Machine Company and the British Gramophone Company, but those links were severed at the onset of World War I.

Talk-O-Phone produced disc phonographs ( gramophones in British English ) very similar to the earliest " Victor " machines of the Victor Talking Machine Company.

) Another Derek Batey show for Border TV was Look Who's Talking, a light-hearted chat show, and a fifteen-minute part-networked music show, The Sound of ..., featuring The Spinners, a British folk music band The Settlers and other similar artists.

Norman has written and presented a number of documentary series for the BBC, including Hollywood Greats ( 1977 – 79, 1983 ), British Greats ( 1980 ) and Talking Pictures ( 1987 ).

Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by British playwright Alan Bennett.

In a 2000 poll of industry experts conducted by the British Film Institute to find the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, Talking to a Stranger was placed seventy-eighth.

Talking to a Stranger ( 1966 ) is a British television drama, written by John Hopkins for the BBC, which consists of four separate plays recounting the events of one weekend from the viewpoints of four members of the same family.

They were influenced by American bands such as Pere Ubu, Television, Talking Heads, and The Voidoids, and British bands such as Subway Sect.

In 1987 Cole joined actors including Thora Hird, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Patricia Routledge in the award-winning first series of Talking Heads, a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by British playwright Alan Bennett.

In 1971 the British group Savoy Brown included a much slower and bluesier version in their album Street Corner Talking.

The influence of bands like Talking Heads, Liquid Liquid, ESG, and Blondie can be heard throughout the DFA catalog, as well as British electronica pioneers, New Order.

* Spielrein figures prominently in two contemporary British plays: Sabina ( 1998 ) by Snoo Wilson and The Talking Cure ( 2003 ) by Christopher Hampton ( based on the book A Most Dangerous Method ) in which Ralph Fiennes played Jung on the London stage.

Since 1999, Smith has appeared in the BBC dramas Two Thousand Acres of Sky and 55 Degrees North, performed alongside Helena Bonham Carter in the British film Women Talking Dirty, and toured Scotland with her stand-up comedy show.

Talking Turkey was a British adult comic that was published monthly by Galaxy Publications from 1991 to 1992.