The BBC Symphony Orchestra ( BBC SO ) is a British radio orchestra based in London.

The BBC SO is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ).

Guest conducting the BBC SO in the 1930s: from top left, clockwise, Thomas Beecham | Beecham, Serge Koussevitzky | Koussevitzky, Willem Mengelberg | Mengelberg, Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini | Toscanini, Bruno Walter | Walter, Anton Webern | Webern, Felix Weingartner | Weingartner

The pioneering work of Boult and the BBC SO included an early performance of Schoenberg's Variations, Op.

Anton Webern conducted eight BBC SO concerts between 1931 and 1936.

Arturo Toscanini, widely regarded at the time as the world's leading conductor, conducted the BBC SO in 1935 and later said that it was the finest he had ever directed.

The corporation withdrew from responsibility for the Proms, with which Wood went ahead, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Society, with the LSO replacing the BBC SO.

The BBC SO was relocated from London to Bristol.

In September 1941 the BBC SO took up residence in Bedford, where it remained, giving live broadcasts and making recordings until it returned permanently to its London base at the BBC's Maida Vale studios in 1945.

The BBC resumed its support for the Proms in 1942, with the BBC SO returning temporarily to London during the Proms seasons of 1942 – 45.

Some younger players felt that many BBC SO principals were past their best.

He offended the BBC SO players by demanding that they all stand up when he came on to the platform – which they firmly declined to do.

He refused to join the staff of the BBC, and insisted on remaining a freelance, taking numerous external engagements to the detriment of his work with the BBC SO.

However, his regular programming of such works did nothing to lift the spirits of the BBC SO: orchestral musicians regarded playing the instrumental accompaniment for large choirs as drudgery.

In the 1950s the BBC SO, in common with the rest of the BBC's musical organisation, suffered from stagnation.

" In addition to working under a conductor it disliked, the BBC SO found its role as a pioneer of progressive music gone, and its performances of the standard classics criticised as under-rehearsed ( particularly during Proms seasons ) compared with those given by Legge's Philharmonia and others.

Howgill appointed Rudolf Schwarz as chief conductor of the BBC SO.

Under Schwarz, BBC SO concerts other than the Proms drew poor houses – as low as 29 per cent of capacity in the 1959 – 60 season.

In 1959 William Glock was appointed controller of music for the BBC, and the profile and fortunes of the BBC SO began to rise.

By 1962 Glock had persuaded the management of the BBC to increase the orchestra's budget to allow for joint principals in the string sections, to attract top musicians who could play in the BBC SO without having to give up their solo or chamber careers.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

* 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational / home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

The Electron is widely misquoted as operating at 1. 79 MHz after measurements derived from speed testing against the thoroughly 2 MHz BBC Micro for various pieces of ' common software '

Note that this is subtly different to the ' thanks ' list in the original BBC Model B.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

In the BBC Three Sitcom Mongrels the character of Destiny is an Afghan Hound.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

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.

Here is a table of the contents of the BBC Red Button ( as of December 2009 )

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.

When Lambert arrived at the BBC in June 1963, she was initially given a more experienced associate producer, Mervyn Pinfield, to assist her.

In December 2005, an Azerbaijani official stated in a BBC interview that Armenians “ never lived in Nakhchivan, which has been Azerbaijani land from time immemorial, and that's why there are no Armenian cemeteries and monuments and have never been any .” Adam T. Smith, an anthropologist and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, called the removal of the khachkars " a shameful episode in humanity's relation to its past, a deplorable act on the part of the government of Azerbaijan which requires both explanation and repair.

* The character of Dr. John Watson, associate of fictional detective Sherlock Homes, comes across a group of doggers while independently investigating distant mysterious lights he sees during the 2012 BBC production of " The Hounds of Baskerville ", the second episode of season two in the televised drama " Sherlock ".

For example, on her appointment, the associate editor of The Spectator, and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Rod Liddle, wrote: " Never elected by anyone, anywhere, totally unqualified for almost every job she has done, she has risen to her current position presumably through a combination of down-the-line Stalinist political correctness and the fact that she has the charisma of a caravan site on the Isle of Sheppey.

At The Independent, which she joined after leaving the BBC, she was a columnist and associate editor, working with then editor Andrew Marr.

Within 12 months, the BBC offered " auntie " on-line discussion groups ; web pages for select web-related programs and BBC departments ; free web pages for associate members ; and an internet connection service www. bbc. co. uk.

Since 2008, François-Xavier Roth has held the title of associate guest conductor of the BBC NOW.

He is an associate editor of The Spectator, and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he is the author of Too Beautiful for You ( 2003 ), Love Will Destroy Everything ( 2007 ), and co-author of The Best of Liddle Britain ( 2007 ).

Philip Waddilove, a former BBC radio and record producer, contributed £ 5, 000 in return for associate producer billing.

He was the associate producer on the BBC television series Doctor Who from the first episode of An Unearthly Child to The Romans, during Verity Lambert's tenure as producer.

John was recommended to then Doctor Who producer Peter Bryant by another BBC producer, James Cellan Jones, who sent Bryant and his associate Derrick Sherwin photographs of her.

Elite 4 will be the third sequel to 1984's Elite, a game that Braben and his former associate, Ian Bell, wrote for the BBC Micro computer, and which was ported to most other platforms of the day.