In 1927 the BBC took over the responsibility for the Promenade Concerts, widely known as " the Proms ".

A substantial number of the players performed at the 1930 Promenade Concerts under Sir Henry Wood, and the full BBC Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert on 22 October 1930, conducted by Boult at the Queen's Hall.

The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

While now known as the BBC Proms, the text on the tickets ( along with the headline " BBC Proms " next to the BBC logo ), still says " BBC Music presents the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ".

* Publishers Chappell & Co withdraw their financial support for the Promenade Concerts, to be replaced by the BBC.

In Britain, he has given over 30 BBC Promenade concerts and regularly appears with all the major Symphony Orchestras.

The opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts on 16 July 1976, in which he was to have conducted his BBC forces in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, became a memorial concert for him following Kempe's death in Zürich aged 65.

In 2008 she composed a suite for the BBC Promenade Concerts for the London Sinfonietta, Muzsikas and Folkestra.

Singcircle performances include the Round House, 1977, the Royal Albert Hall, 1978 ( BBC Promenade Concert ) and the Barbican in 1985, with the composer at the mixing desk.

After that it was used for many other music programmes, live and recorded, including the annual BBC Promenade concerts and the Eurovision Song Contest.

This preoccupation with fusing tempered modality and non-tempered resonance is continued in his largest work to date, Heaven is Shy of Earth, an oratorio for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra lasting nearly 35 minutes, commissioned by the BBC for the 2006 Promenade Concerts, where it was premiered by singer Angelika Kirchschlager and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

... Dove Descending was featured by Black Dyke Band at the 2007 BBC Promenade Concerts in a day devoted to music for brass.

Gopalnath has participated in the Jazz Festival in Prague, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the International Cervantino Festival in Mexico, the Music Hall Festival in Paris, the BBC Promenade concert in 1994 at London, and has toured all over the world.

Gopalnath has the distinction of being the first Carnatic musician to be invited in the BBC Promenade concert in 1994, in the Royal Albert Hall at London.

* Touchstone ( 1967 ) Commissioned by the BBC for the Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

She has performed at many international festivals including the WOMAD Festival, Bang on a Can Festival, Festival d ’ Automne in Paris, Henry Wood ’ s BBC Promenade, Hong Kong Arts Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Le Festival de Radio France, Lincoln Center Festival, Luminato, NextWave !/ BAM, Ravinia Festival, Silk Road Festival, Sydney Festival, Tanglewood, Wien Modern and the Yatsugatake Kogen Festival in Japan.

In 2000, Graham made his début at the BBC Promenade Concerts at The Royal Albert Hall, performing in Kurt Weill ’ s Street Scenes and a 70th birthday tribute for Stephen Sondheim.

* Out of the Fire: The BBC Concerts ( 1998 )

Caine's BBC broadcasts include: Candide ; One Touch of Venus ; Trouble in Tahiti ; The Telephone ; Concerts of Bernstein, Porter and Kern ; Friday Night is Music Night.

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 '.

In more recent times, Boudica has been the subject of numerous documentaries, including some by Discovery Channel, History International Channel ( now known as H2 ), and the BBC.

* 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the " BBC pips ".

He is well known for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast ; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show ( 1951 – 60 ).

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

These huge kits became well known, notably the amber set in the films, Tommy and Stardust, and in footage shot by the BBC at Charlton in 1974.

He became known for his work with Harry Enfield and as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, The Fast Show.

Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale are popularly known as the " flagship " soaps, as they are the highest rating programmes for ITV and the BBC respectively.

The first known piece of television science fiction anywhere in the world was produced by the BBC on February 11, 1938, a thirty-five-minute adaptation of a section of the play R. U. R ..

The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.

The Shirehorses are a spoof band comprising two BBC Radio DJs from Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley, known collectively as Mark and Lard.

", an attempt to make the programme palatable to BBC officials by connecting it with the popular group of theatre comedians known as The Crazy Gang.

Over the first three series Milligan's demands for increasingly complex sound effects ( or ' grams ', as they were then known ) pushed the available technology and the skills of the BBC engineers to their limits — effects had to be created mechanically ( foley ) or played back from discs, sometimes requiring the use of four or five turntables running simultaneously.

A major international television network is the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC which is perhaps most well known for its news agency BBC News.

These broadcasting services, financed not from the domestic licence fee but from government grant-in-aid ( from the Foreign Office budget ), were known administratively as the External Services of the BBC.

According to BBC The Communist Party of Kampuchea ( Cambodia ), better known as the " Khmer Rouge ", identified strongly with Maoism, and is generally labeled a " Maoist " movement today.

The local radio stations are Free Radio ( Formerly known as Wyvern FM ) which broadcasts on 97. 6-96. 7-102. 8 FM, Sunshine Radio on 106. 2 FM and 954 kHz Am, and BBC Hereford and Worcester which broadcasts on 94. 7FM.

Binge is also known for Sailing By ( 1963 ), the BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast theme.

Pertwee is best known for a series of famous roles, firstly his 18-year stint on BBC Radio as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark, secondly his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and thirdly as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge.

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.