" The bassoon player William Waterhouse who joined the BBC SO from the LSO found the BBC's repertory refreshing, but the music making less impressive: " There were no potboilers, but also, I'm afraid, no world-ranking soloists either.

He was delegated by his colleagues Walton, Britten, Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett to make a strong protest to William Glock, the BBC's controller of music.

Sir William Haley, the BBC's Director-General, had already met Jacob during preparations to report the news of the D-Day landings and was aware that his political contacts ( Churchill in particular ) could be valuable.

Ian William Richardson CBE ( 7 April 19349 February 2007 ) was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy.

Adam spent nine years in this role, before in 1950 the Director General of the BBC, William Haley, took the perhaps surprising decision to appoint him as the Controller of the BBC Light Programme, one of the BBC's most popular national radio stations.

On 22 May 2009, the Hollywood screen legend Tony Curtis had to apologise to the BBC radio audience after he used three swear words in a six-minute interview with William Crawley on the BBC's Talk Back programme.

He returned to front-line producing duties, taking over the BBC's The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare series, which had been initiated by producer Cedric Messina under Sutton's aegis in the late 1970s.

Lord Aldington, then the vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, wrote to the BBC's director-general Hugh Carleton Greene saying that Frost had a " hatred " of the Prime Minister, which " he finds impossible to control ".

* In the 1940s and 1950s John Dickson Carr wrote a series of radio plays for the BBC's Appointment with Fear, and subsequently for CBS ' Suspense series.

In June 2009, the BBC's Finlo Rohrer wrote that, 58 years since publication, the book is still regarded " as the defining work on what it is like to be a teenager.

In 1998 he wrote and presented the BBC's Reith Lectures, entitled War in our World.

He has also worked for the BBC's Natural History Unit making two programmes about the " Land Of The Tiger ", and wrote and presented " Another Silent Spring " about the effect of pesticides on wildlife.

To this end, he wrote an on-spec script for the first episode of Dark Season – originally titled The Adventuresome Three – and used the BBC's internal mail system to send it directly to the Head of Children's Programmes, Anna Home.

But television critic Mark Lawson wrote that Potter's " tendency towards unfocused vitriol and noisy self-examination made his contribution easily swattable by the BBC's damage controllers and ignorable by the wider audience.

Gatiss wrote and performed the comedy sketches The Web of Caves, The Kidnappers and The Pitch of Fear for the BBC's " Doctor Who Night " in 1999 with Little Britain's David Walliams, and played the Master in the Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil under the name " Sam Kisgart ", a pseudonym he later used for a column in Doctor Who Magazine.

Tam Dean Burn wrote in The Herald ( Glasgow ) " I would argue that this bias has moved on apace since Thompson went to Israel in 2005 and signed a deal with prime minister Ariel Sharon on the BBC's coverage of the conflict.

" Journalist Muhammad Idrees Ahmad wrote in CounterPunch that " the BBC's director general Mark Thompson can hardly be described as a disinterested party: in 2005 he made a trip to Jerusalem where he met with Ariel Sharon in what was seen in Israel as an attempt to ' build bridges ' and ' a " softening " to the corporation's unofficial editorial line on the Middle East '"

In 1980 after the end of his playing career, he wrote an autobiography with the BBC's Pat Murphy, titled Time to Declare.

Kretzmer wrote lyrics for the BBC's satire That Was The Week That Was, including the racial satire " Song of Nostalgia For an American State " and the much-recorded tribute to John F. Kennedy, " In the Summer of His Years ", written and performed by Millicent Martin within hours of his assassination.

It was originally designed as an occasional five-minute " filler " to plug gaps between shows. Daily_Herald TV critic, wrote " I believe that is marks an important turning point in the BBC's attitude to its audience ".

During the 1970s, he wrote the series The Ghosts of Motley Hall ( 1976 – 78 ), Dick Turpin ( 1979 – 82 ), parts of the series The Famous Five and Doctor Snuggles and seventeen episodes of The Adventures of Black Beauty for ITV companies ; and Cloudburst, The Boy from Space and The King's Dragon as part of BBC's Look and Read ( 1967 – 2004 ) programme for schools, some episodes of which he also presented.

In May 2006, Broadcast Magazine wrote " The Creative Future review will enhance the already high standing of Ashley Highfield, the BBC's director of new media and technology.

Myers wrote incidental music for television, for example a 1964 serial in the television series Doctor Who, the theme to All Gas and Gaiters and the theme for the BBC's Question Time.

The BBC's David Gibbon wrote that the end result of the track is one that will not " fail to impress fans ".

He has co-created ( with Simon Ashdown ) the BAFTA nominated television series Funland, which aired on BBC Three, and wrote the Billy Goats Gruff episode of the BBC's 2008 series Fairy Tales.

Oliver also wrote music for television, including several of the BBC's Shakespeare productions ( Timon among those ), and some chamber and instrumental music.

He wrote ten episodes for The Avengers, thirty-two episodes for The Troubleshooters and contributed fifteen episodes to the BBC's Doctor Who in the 1960s being the three serials Marco Polo, The Aztecs and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve.

She recently wrote the screenplay for the BBC's Christmas costume drama adaptation Great Expectations.

He joined with David Lloyd to write episodes and act in the children's TV series Harry's Mad ( based on the book by Dick King-Smith ), and wrote and presented two series of BBC's What's That Noise .< ref name =" Mark Billingham at HaHaHeeHee "> Mark Billingham at HaHaHeeHee.

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.

* November 8 – The BBC's first local radio station ( BBC Radio Leicester ) is launched.

In 2002 Enfield was the first guest on the revamped version of BBC's Top Gear and also appeared on the show on 23 November 2008.

On 16 November 2008 Jones was invited to perform on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.

The series began transmission in the UK in November 2007, and on the BBC's U. S. producing partner station WGBH ( PBS Boston ) in spring 2008.

Lord was the subject of BBC's This Is Your Life in November 2001.

On 20 November 2009, in aid of BBC's Children in Need appeal, actress-comedienne Lucy Porter achieved the highest overall score for a Mastermind celebrity edition.

On 16 November 2006, Garlick appeared as the hidden musician in the ' Identity Parade ' round on the BBC's Never Mind The Buzzcocks game show.

BBC Prime was the BBC's general entertainment TV channel in Europe and the Middle East from 30 January 1995 until 11 November 2009, when it was replaced by BBC Entertainment.

On 7 November 2009, he appeared as a panelist on the BBC's Question Time programme.

He was portrayed by Tom Hiddleston in A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets, a TV movie first broadcast on BBC Four on the 22 November 2005 as part of a supporting program for the BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told season.

On 29 November 2007 Haslam rejected a bid from James Derry's consortium and the Mansfield fans pledged to have a TV protest against him on 2 December 2007 against Harrogate Railway Athletic live on the BBC's Match of the Day programme.

On 5 November 2007, Keating confirmed that Boyzone would reunite for a special appearance on the BBC's annual fundraiser, Children in Need, performing a medley of hits, although had not yet commented on the possibility of a new tour or album.

In November 2008, Walker's presence in the BBC's recovered coverage of F1-as a website columnist-was confirmed.

* The BBC's Horizon " Freak waves " first aired in November 2002

The programme's first broadcast from the BBC's Salford Quays studios took place on Monday 28 November 2011 during the BBC Breakfast programme.

In November 2006 James, long known for experimenting with his hairstyle, was mildly ridiculed on the BBC's Match Of The Day for wearing his hair in a style similar to that of fictional character Clark Kent.

In November 2011 it was announced that they were composing the BBC's 2012 Olympic coverage theme tune, " First Steps ".

Walter's War, a drama written by Kwei-Armah and based on the wartime experiences of footballer Walter Tull's life, was made by UK TV channel BBC Four and screened on 9 November 2008 as part of the BBC's " Ninety Years of Remembrance " season in November 2008.

On 11 November 1937, Tate appeared as Stanhope again in a production of Journey's End made by the BBC's fledgling television service, one of its earliest major drama productions.

On 13 November 1965, Tynan participated in a live TV debate, broadcast as part of the BBC's late-night satirical show BBC-3.

In November 2011 the program moved to Salford from London to a brand new studio as part of the BBC's relocation north.

That distinction has commonly been ascribed to the BBC's Doctor Who but the first episode of Space Patrol premiered on ABC in the Midlands on 7 April 1963, preceding Doctor Who by more than seven months ( that series debuted on 23 November 1963 ).

In early November 2005, she made her acting comeback in the BBC's Blessed, an eight part sitcom.