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 '.

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

* House of Cards at BBC Four

In October 2011, BBC Four premiered the made-for-TV comedy film Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.

It aired as part of PBS ' Great Performances series on 6 October 2010 and on BBC Four on 12 December 2010.

* Multiverse-Radio-discussion on BBC Four with Melvyn Bragg

On September 7, 2010, the song was the subject-matter of the BBC Radio Four series, " Soul Music ".

The novel has been adapted by Robin Brooks for BBC Radio Four.

* Tristan da Cunha: The story of Asthma Island, part 1 & part 2, BBC Four ( 2008 )

Tina Lifford portrayed Winnie Mandela in the 1997 TV drama Mandela and De Klerk ; Sophie Okonedo portrayed her in the BBC television drama Mrs Mandela, first broadcast on BBC Four on 25 January 2010.

Subsequently in 2006, Michael Sheen played him in the BBC Four drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa !.

The BBC has also begun using their digital channels BBC Three and BBC Four to build a following for off-beat series like The Thick of It.

A 2010 television adaptation by Howard Overman for BBC Four borrowed some of the characters and some minor plot elements of the novel to create a new story.

It was broadcast on BBC Four on 16 December 2010.

In the 2003-5 stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited ( filmed for BBC Four ), Paddick and Williams ( and therefore Julian and Sandy ) were played by Nigel Harrison and Robin Sebastian.

In October 2003 a successful stage show called Round the Horne ... Revisited opened in London, compiled by Series Four co-writer Brian Cooke from original scripts, and ran until April 2005 – also siring three nationwide tours and a BBC television film.

The play was also filmed for television, directed by Nick Wood, and was broadcast on BBC Four on 13 June 2004, as part of a Summer in the Sixties season, subsequently airing on BBC Two on 1 January 2005.

* " Round the Horne … Revisited " on BBC Four

An episode of Arena, broadcast on BBC Four on 1 January 2007, focused on The Archers.

The show at the Lowry in Salford was filmed and broadcast on BBC Four on 13 September 2008.

On the outbreak of war in September 1939 the BBC put into effect its contingency plans to minimise disruption of broadcasting.

In 2009, BBC Top Gear presenter James May announced plans to recreate the full length Brooklands using Scalextric track and cars.

Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.

BSB also received a needed boost in June 1989 when they won the franchises for the two remaining British high-powered DBS channels ; beating six other bidders when BBC dropped all plans for use of the allocated channels.

The LTC plans were seen by the ITA as serious contenders to the quality educational programming of the BBC ; so keen were the ITA that they were quoted, at the time, as saying the LTC had to have its chance, whatever the repercussions.

In November 2008, it was reported by The Times and other newspapers that the weekly programme was to be revived in 2009, but the BBC said there were no such plans.

* BBC Article on Lake Kivu A similar problem at Lake Kivu and plans to deal with it

During an interview with BBC Radio Leeds on 16 June 2012, Gates announced plans to open a further academy in Leeds.

By the early 1970s Kneale was once again regularly writing for the BBC, who announced plans to produce a fourth Quatermass serial in 1972.

The project plans to make broadband internet 100 times faster including partnership with the BBC to help broadcast ultra high definition content.

Planning for the new channel, along with the new BBC Three, had been in progress since October 2000 ; however the incumbent government delayed approving the new BBC digital plans.

There are no plans for these episodes to be broadcast on BBC 7.

* The British government draws up plans to break up the BBC in the wake of the Hutton inquiry.

At the same time BBC News reported that the government's COBRA committee had drawn up plans to deal with the crisis, including using the military to assist in moving supplies and restricting the sale of fuel.

The following day, however, he clarified his future plans in a frank BBC interview with Stubbs and Bobby George.

In 1994, when announcing her plans to reduce the dominance of received pronunciation and include more regional accents on Radio 3 and Radio 4, Liz Forgan ( who then held Ian Trethowan's old post as managing director of BBC network radio ) said that she wanted to move away from the attitude expressed by Trethowan when he heard a Birmingham accent on BBC radio and said " What is that sound doing on the BBC?

As of yet, 3CR is not carried on DAB radio ; but the BBC have stated previously that they have plans to add the station pending review.

Therefore plans were drawn up for BBC York to move in with BBC Leeds temporarily and to retain a presence in North Yorkshire through the BBC Bus, and through increased contributions from district studios in Harrogate and Scarborough.

* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.

Although Acorn were able to shrink substantially the same functionality as the BBC into just one chip, manufacturing problems meant that very few machines were available for the Christmas period — to the extent that some shops reported eight presales for every delivered machine.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

BBC Text was considerably more advanced than Ceefax, in that it offered a richer visual interface, with the possibility of photographic images and designed graphics ( as opposed to Ceefax graphics which were composed of simple blocks of colour ).

Although the experimental service was publicly available, there were no digital set-top boxes or receivers available on the market which could decode the signal and the service was only presented to the public via BBC demonstrations using prototype receivers.

Sky News had had a free hand with domestic news for over eight years ( since 5 February 1989 ) and being owned by News International their papers were used to criticise the BBC for extending its news output.

The bulletin was joined in being simulcast on 10 April 2006 when the BBC News at One ( with British Sign Language in-vision signing ) and BBC News at Six bulletins were added to the schedule following a similar format to the News at Ten in terms of content on the channel once each simulcast ends.

From 13 June 2011, the weeknight editions of BBC News at 0100, 0200, 0300 and 0400 were replaced with Newsday.

Until May 2009, the morning business updates on BBC Breakfast and on the BBC News Channel were broadcast from one of the London Stock Exchange's studios in central London.

Graphics and titles were developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and were gradually rolled out across the whole of BBC News, including a similar design for regional news starting with Newsroom South East and the three BBC Nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The surviving reels were featured in the BBC documentary The Epic That Never Was ( 1965 ), revealing some of Laughton's most accomplished acting.

Graves's two books were the basis for a British television adaptation produced by the BBC.

Only a very few comparable DOSes were stored elsewhere than floppy disks ; among these exceptions were the British BBC Micro's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controller chip, a ROM chip, and a handful of logic chips, to be installed inside the computer ; and Commodore's CBM DOS, located in a ROM chip in each disk drive.

In the private home computer market, where games were a significant driver, the Dragon suffered due to its graphical capabilities, which were inferior to contemporary machines such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro.

The units had a robust motherboard in a spacious case, reminiscent of the BBC Micro, and so were more tolerant of home-modification than some of their contemporaries, which often had their components crammed into the smallest possible space.

An islander told the BBC that " we were the luckiest people that was ever mixed up in a war ".

After a string of successful films, including the comedies The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) and The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), as well as dramas like Dead of Night, Scott of the Antarctic and The Cruel Sea, Ealing Studios finally ceased production in 1958, and the studios were taken over by the BBC for television production.