There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.

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.

By providing extra storage this modification also allowed some games and applications intended for the BBC Micro to function on the Electron despite the lack of a native Mode 7.

See also the list of Acorn Electron games for a fairly comprehensive list of games published for the machine and: Category: BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games for a list of games with information on Wikipedia.

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 Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

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.

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.

Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

Weather summaries are provided every half hour by forecasters from the BBC Weather Centre while business and sport updates are also presented generally from within the main studio.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

Coverage of major events has also been simulcast on BBC World News.

Many of these programmes also appear throughout the week on BBC News's sister channel BBC World News.

BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms.

Bulletins on BBC World News and BBC One also introduced similar graphics and title sequences on the same day.

When he broadcast on Welsh BBC, early in his career, he was introduced using this pronunciation.

At the BBC, Orwell introduced Voice, a literary programme for his Indian broadcasts, and by now was leading an active social life with literary friends, particularly on the political left.

Since the introduction of digital television, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 each introduced a number of digital-only channels.

The BBC has for many years introduced its 7 am News broadcast on Radio 4 on Good Friday with a verse from Isaac Watts ' hymn " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ".

He introduced to his BBC television shows a dancing group of very fat ladies called the Roly Polys.

* Leonard Slatkin introduced Elgar's Enigma Variations from BBC Proms 1995

The BBC's television sound feed was mono, as was all UK TV audio before NICAM was introduced, but the BBC Radio 1 feed was stereo and was simulcast in sync with the TV pictures.

In July, 1983, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the 45-minute documentary Music from a Small Planet, in which Sagan and Druyan explained the process of selecting music for the record and introduced excerpts.

Doctors was first shown on BBC One on 26 March 2000 with an episode entitled " Letting Go ", Dr. Brendan McGuire is introduced as the head partner at a general practice, The Riverside Surgery, in the Midland town of Letherbridge with his wife Kate ( Maggie Cronin ) as Office Manager and a team of young doctors ; Dr. Steve Rawlings ( Mark Frost ), Dr. Helen Thompson ( Corrine Wicks ), Dr. Rana Mistry ( Akbar Kurtha ) and Dr. Caroline Powers ( Jacqueline Leonard ).

Forsyth made his television debut in 1939 as a child, singing and dancing on a talent show introduced by Jasmine Bligh, probably an episode of Come and Be Televised ( BBC, 1939 ), broadcast from Radiolympia.

In 2010, the Proms Archive was introduced on the BBC Proms webpage, to allow for systematic searching of all works that have been performed, and all artists who have appeared, at The Proms over its history.

In recent years, the BBC has introduced a video process called VidFIRE, which can restore kinescope recordings to their original frame rate by interpolating video fields between the film frames.

On the day his reign officially ended, 11 December 1936, Edward made a BBC radio broadcast from Windsor Castle ; no longer King, he was introduced by Sir John Reith as " His Royal Highness Prince Edward ".

In 2007, another new set of live-action idents were introduced, featuring live rendered dynamic elements which react to the voice of the continuity announcers, an effect similar to the original design of BBC Four, but utilising live-action footage instead of 3D rendered footage.

Braben also made Wise a would-be writer ; their BBC shows in the 1970s would always climax with an extended sketch, introduced by Wise as " a play what I wrote.

At the new king's order, Sir John Reith, head of the BBC, introduced the former king as " His Royal Highness, Prince Edward " when the latter broadcast from Windsor Castle on the evening of 11 December 1936.

The mainstay of the CD line to begin with was a series starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred ( the Doctor / companion team from the 1987, 1988 and 1989 seasons of Doctor Who ) as a pair of wanderers in time and space named " The Professor " ( McCoy ) and " Ace " ( Aldred ) who so closely resembled the characters McCoy and Aldred had played on Doctor Who-even addressing each other by the same nicknames-that the BBC stepped in and their seventh outing, Ghosts, consequently introduced a number of changes to the characters that made the resemblance somewhat less close, the main one being that the adventures now featured " The Dominie " ( McCoy ) and " Alice " ( Aldred ).

On 18 January 2010, the BBC introduced a local Football League highlight show called Late Kick Off.

The pips were introduced in 1924 and have been generated by the BBC since 1990. to mark the precise start of each hour.

In January 2009, after the BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed, The Kennel Club introduced revised breed standards for the British Bulldog, along with 209 other breeds, to address health concerns.

At its height, Yarwood's BBC TV shows, which were based on a variety mix of comic sketches, guest musicians, and a closing song sung by Yarwood ( introduced by the line, " and this is me ", which became the title of his first autobiography ), regularly attracted 28 million viewers.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

The new designs also featured a dynamic set of titles for the channel ; the globe would begin spinning from where the main story was taking place, while the headline scrolled around in a ribbon ; this was occasionally replaced by the BBC News logo.

Bulletins on BBC One moved into a new set in January 2003 although retained the previous ivory Lambie-Nairn titles until February 2004.

Since 2002, Charles has been a DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music, presenting The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show, where he plays a diverse range of funk and soul music, from classic tracks to the latest releases, and provides publicity for new bands.

On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two.

Following the departure of Steve Rider from the BBC, Lineker, who is a keen recreational golfer with a handicap of four, became the new presenter for the BBC's golf coverage.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work and travel on London Underground.

In 2006 he started a new club at the Big Chill House in Kings Cross, London, and did a guest mix for BBC Radio 1's The Blue Room show.

On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist.

He suggested he could purchase new tapes so that the BBC would have no need to erase the originals, but this was also turned down.

After losing the rights to screen Neighbours in the United Kingdom to Five, the BBC commissioned new serial Out of the Blue as its replacement.

For Series 4 ( 2008 ), a new design of Screwdriver was commissioned by the BBC.

Romero revolutionized the horror film genre with Night of the Living Dead ; per Almar Haflidason, of the BBC, the film represented " a new dawn in horror film-making ".

In 1991, the BBC broadcast a new version of John Barton's ' The War that Never Ends ', which had first been performed on stage in the 1960s.

The Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years, which was produced in a new version in 2000.

On 13 December 2000, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a new radio adaptation directed by Howard Davies starring Geraldine McEwan as " Lady Bracknell ", Simon Russell Beale as " Jack Worthing ", Julian Wadham as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Geoffrey Palmer as " Rev.

In 1969, the BBC asked Smallfilms to produce a new series for colour television, but did not specify any particular storyline.

This time it was the first single " Do It Again " off their new album, aired on his BBC Radio 1 " In New Music We Trust " show ..

In 2007, an image of a zoetrope was unveiled as one of BBC Two's new idents: a futuristic city with flying cars seen through the shape of the number two.

On January 1, 2000, the BBC listed the noughties ( derived from " nought " a word used for zero in many English-speaking countries ), as a potential moniker for the new decade.

In March 2011 The Guardian published an article concerning an agreement between the World Service and the US State department, in which the latter would provide the BBC with a " low six figure " sum so that new technology could be developed that would stop jamming and to educate people on how to avoid state censorship should they want to.