On the 11th of February 2010, whilst making an appearance on BBC's ' The One Show ' to answer a question about how children's programmes have changed over the years, Roland Rat spent so much time joking about the presenters ( Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley ) that Adrian ended the interview before he answered the question.

The BBC's answer to this was Auntie's Bloomers, eventually replaced by Outtake TV.

In addition, two five-minute Christmas specials were made by LWT as part of All Star Comedy Carnival in 1969 and 1972, ITV's answer to the BBC's Christmas Night with the Stars programme.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

The editor of BBC's Newsnight current affairs show said: " It is absolutely not the BBC's job to save the planet.

The show was one of several held up by Mary Whitehouse as an example of the BBC's moral laxity.

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.

In the United Kingdom, she was best known for presenting a regular item about children's literature on the BBC's Saturday morning show Going Live.

Their performance at the award show impressed the BBC's Head of Light Entertainment Bill Cotton and Controller of BBC One Paul Fox, who were sitting in the audience.

Chindōgu and its creator Kenji Kawakami also became a regular feature on a children's television show produced by the BBC called It'll Never Work, a show in a similar vein as the BBC's Tomorrow's World ; however, It'll Never Work usually focused more on wacky and humorous gadgets than on serious scientific and technological advances.

Countdown was partly based on the 1960s Australian pop show Kommotion and on the BBC's Top of the Pops but unlike its British counterpart, Countdown was not restricted in its use of music videos.

Many Boards of Canada compositions are used in the BBC's motoring show, Top Gear, such as 1969 from the album Geogaddi, and Pete Standing Alone from the predecessor album Music Has the Right to Children.

The show has been shown at lunchtime since its inception, originally at 12. 30pm as a lead-in to the BBC's One O ' Clock News.

The show was broadcast for much of the war from the BBC Wales studios in Bangor, Caernarvonshire, north Wales, where the BBC's Light Entertainment Department was based during World War II after an initial brief relocation to Bristol.

He also presented four series of the BBC2 cricket magazine show, Gower's Cricket Monthly from 1995 – 1998 and, at the same time was one of the BBC's main cricket commentators.

She gained additional popularity as a result of her frequent appearances on the BBC's classical music quiz show, Face the Music.

A parody of both sports commentators and chat show presenters, among others, the character has appeared in two radio series, three television series and numerous TV and radio specials, including appearances on BBC's Comic Relief, which have followed the rise and fall of his career.

The show was recorded principally in the BBC's West London studios, mainly Riverside 1, with external scenes filmed in Haverhill, a town in South-west Suffolk, which itself expanded rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s through residents moving from London.

BBC's The One show presenter interviews MI6 spy

Lomax also hosted a folk music show on BBC's home service and organized a skiffle group, Alan Lomax and the Ramblers ( who included Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, and Shirley Collins, among others ), which appeared on British television.

He also has a programme on the BBC's digital station, BBC Radio 6 Music, which was on Sunday afternoons, but from April 2005 he has presented the daily teatime show on BBC Radio 6 Music, taking over from Andrew Collins, where he still remains.

The show was voted number 31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.

This coincided with the show becoming one of the BBC's most popular programmes, according to producer Gareth Gwenlan, and allowed for more pathos in the series and an expansion of the regular cast.

At the end of the year, the group took part in the BBC's anniversary TV show Fifty Years Of Music.

Nigel Lythgoe, who won infamy as a judge on ITV's pop talent show Popstars and now appears on the BBC's So You Think You Can Dance, is a former controller of entertainment at the company, working as an executive producer on many of the station's top-rating programmes during the 1990s and early 2000s.

He is perhaps best known in the United Kingdom for his BBC1 chat show Wogan, for his work presenting Children in Need, as the host of Wake Up to Wogan, the original host of the BBC game show Blankety Blank ( before being replaced by Les Dawson ), a presenter of Come Dancing in the 1970s, and as the BBC's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest on radio and television from 1971 to 2008.

He had previously taken smaller parts in a number of British television dramas, appearing in the acclaimed I, Claudius in 1976 as Gratus, the no-nonsense soldier of Caligula's bodyguard who drew Claudius from his hiding-place in the palace, and presented him as the proper heir to the empire, and also as Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York in the BBC's 1982 productions of Shakespeare's Henry VI plays.

In February 1986 he presented a special Sky at Night episode on the approach of Halley's Comet, though he later stated that the BBC's better-funded Horizon team " made a complete hash of the programme.

In 2006, he presented some of the BBC's coverage of The Proms and featured in one of the two Jackanory specials, voicing the characters and playing the storyteller in the audiobook version of Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's children's book Muddle Earth.

In 2005, Kemp appeared in an episode of BBC's Extras and in a two-part adaptation of the Gerald Seymour novel A Line In The Sand for ITV, and he has also presented, on The Friday Night Project and as a stand in host on The Paul O ' Grady Show ( 2007 ; 2008 ).

No commercials are presented because the BBC's services in the U. K. are financed through license fees.

He presented BBC's Antiques Roadshow from 2000 until 2008, his last programme ( recorded at Kentwell Hall, Suffolk ) was shown on 30 March 2008 being a tribute to himself.

On 4 July 2007 episode of the BBC's The Daily Politics programme, Klass presented a segment criticising the British Government's multicultural policies and in particular the provision of translation services by public bodies.

He presented an episode, " Three Miles High ", in the first series of the BBC's Great Railway Journeys travelling through parts of Peru and Bolivia.

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

He also presented Sportsview, and in 1968 the BBC's flagship Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand.

She has also appeared on The News Quiz and presented the news on the BBC's Breakfast with Frost programme each Sunday and the following programme Sunday AM with Andrew Marr.

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.

Somerset House was also the main location for the BBC's New Year Live television show, presented by Natasha Kaplinsky, which celebrated the arrival of the year 2006.

During this period she presented the BBC's Open Air programme, authored a book entitled How to Get Married Without Divorcing Your Family with her friend and ex Blue Peter co-host Caron Keating in 1994, and provided voiceovers for numerous advertisements.

Between 1965 and 1990 he presented the BBC's regional news programmes for the North West, originally called Look North, then Look North West and finally North West Tonight.

As part of his brief as the BBC's Washington correspondent, Frei presented a weekly Radio 4 show called Americana, which offers listeners slices of life in all of the country's 50 states as well as political news from Washington.

Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by Alan Ivimey the programme was first broadcast on 7 October 1946 on the BBC's Light Programme ( now called Radio 2 ).

She also presented her own three part documentary called Jennie Bond's Royals on Five and in 2005, she presented the BBC's daytime coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, alongside Charlie Dimmock.

Bond has presented the BBC's Cash in the Attic.

The BBC's new Breakfast Time programme went on air on 17 January 1983, presented by Frank Bough and former ITN newscaster Selina Scott.