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.

Generally, BBC Red Button offers text and video based services, as well as enhanced television programmes which offer extra information, video or quizzes.

Faced with potential unemployment from the sale of Ealing Studios to the BBC in 1954, director Alexander Mackendrick began entertaining offers from Hollywood.

As an activist, Lumley is best known for her support for Gurkhas, the exiled Tibetan people and government, the Kondha indigenous people of India, and the Prospect Burma charity, which offers grants to Burmese students, for whom she broadcast a BBC Radio 4 charity appeal in 2001.

As well as being able to display plain text, BBC Red Button offers richer graphics to Ceefax and a number of interactive video streams.

Over the years he received many more financially lucrative offers to take his programme onto other networks, but has rejected them because he holds a ' gentlemen's agreement ' with the BBC.

* Both Dee and Kelley appear as characters in Episode Four of the 1973 BBC / Masterpiece Theater miniseries Elizabeth R. Kelley offers Elizabeth his prophecies about the death of a prominent person ( which turns out to be Queen Mary of Scotland ) and harangues one of the conspirators against Elizabeth, hinting that he has foreseen the plot to assassinate her, finally observing the conspirator's execution for treason with a wry smile.

The SABC's monopoly on free-to-air terrestrial television was broken with the introduction of privately-owned channel e. tv in 1998. e. tv also provided the first local television news service outside of the SABC stable, although M-Net's parent company, Multichoice, offers services such as CNN International, BBC World News and Sky News via direct-to-home satellite as part of its paid offering.

Emley Moor is also receivable and in some areas of the town offers better reception than Belmont, providing BBC Yorkshire & North Midlands and Yorkshire Television ( West ).

Hanley also offers several cultural facilities such as The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery ( a large ceramics collection, and restored Spitfire ), the Victoria Hall, the Regent Theatre, BBC Radio Stoke's Open Centre and studios, while Piccadilly hosts the annual Sanity Fair and French Market events.

Cox offers replays of ABC and NBC programming in some markets while Comcast includes offerings BBC America and CBS.

In the UK, the BBC iPlayer deals with the largest amount of traffic yet it offers HD content along with SD content.

For users which do not have the bandwidth to stream HD video or even high-SD video which requires 1500 kbit / s, the BBC iPlayer offers lower bitrate streams which in turn lead to lower video quality.

Minnesota Public Radio offers a few services: KNOW, the MPR News station in the Twin Cities, offers music service Radio Heartland on 91. 1 HD2 and additional news programming called BBC News and More on 91. 1 HD3 ; KSJN, the Classical MPR station in the Twin Cities, provides Classical 24 service on 99. 5 HD2 ; and The Current, on 89. 3 in the Twin Cities, offers Wonderground Radio, music for kids and their parents, on 89. 3 HD2.

BBC raw words offers exclusive audio versions of the latest Quick Reads by Andy McNab, Last Night Another Soldier ( 2010 ), read by Rupert Degas.

Exile offers the option of playing an enhanced version of the game on a BBC Micro upgraded with a 16 kB page of sideways RAM.

Since quitting EastEnders in 1988, BBC bosses made numerous offers for her to return, but she never accepted any of the offers ; recently she commented " Why tarnish the gorgeous creation that was Angie Watts ?".

In the 1990 BBC television production of the political thriller House of Cards, Chief Whip Francis Urquhart offers reporter Mattie Storin a glass of Bruichladdich when she arrives for an interview, remarking, " Bruichladdich, if you know your malts.

The BBC Springwatch website offers further video content and allows viewers and programme makers to interact through a message board, Flickr photography group, blogs and the @ BBCSpringwatch Twitter account.

Already a well-known pundit on BBC TV's Rugby Special live weekly program, offers for more TV appearances followed.

The magazine offers detailed programme listings for RTÉ channels, as well as TV3, TG4, 3e, BBC, UTV, and Channel 4, as well as less detailed listings for a number of satellite channels.

Some of these tracks, including audio of Korner himself, appear on the Hendrix double-CD BBC Sessions, including Korner playing slide guitar on "( I'm Your ) Hoochie Coochie Man ".

: Rufus Sewell read a 10-part audio adaptation combining and abridging Doctor Syn on the High Seas and Doctor Syn Returns for BBC Radio, broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in December 2006 and repeated in June 2007.

: A 10-part audio adaptation of The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn ( combining and abridging The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn and The Shadow of Doctor Syn ) read by Rufus Sewell was performed on BBC Radio 7 in December 2007.

* " Disturbing the Universe ": BBC interview with Freeman Dyson, audio, 18 January 1980

BBC Radio 3 commonly makes use of three ISDN BRIs to carry 320 kbit / s audio stream for live outside broadcasts.

* History of Optics ( audio mp3 ) by Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, Jim Bennett, Director of the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and Emily Winterburn, Curator of Astronomy at the National Maritime Museum ( recorded by the BBC ).

* BBC audio file, Radio 4 In Our Time, 45 minutes.

* BBC audio file.

They are regularly repeated on the digital speech station BBC Radio 4 Extra and are available on audio CD.

A tape of the bulletin survives and has been included in an ABC Radio audio compilation, also on the BBC tribute CD, Vivat Milligna.

Milligan contributed his recollections of his childhood in India for the acclaimed 1970s BBC audio history series Plain Tales From The Raj.

The production was released on audio cassette by Hodder Headline Audiobooks by arrangement with BBC Enterprises ( ISBN 1-85998-218-2 ).

The production was released on audio cassette by the BBC Radio Collection ( ISBN 0-563-47803-9 ).

* BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, article ( with audio )

BBC Radio in the UK uses 44. 1 kHz 16-bit two-channel. wav audio as standard in their VCS system.

The popular British Television show Doctor Who featured the Transcontinental Railroad in a BBC audio book entitled The Runaway Train, read by Matt Smith and written for audio by Oli Smith.

* Jurassic woman BBC News audio slide show on Anning narrated by Tracy Chevalier.

* BBC audio file.

It features an audio clip of a BBC correspondent on Lumumba's death.

Ultimately, Pertwee was successful in seeing the Third Doctor return to the airwaves with two audio productions for BBC Radio, The Paradise of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space.

The BBC also began to experiment with digital audio in the 1960s.

An audio version was produced by the BBC starring Ralph Richardson as Captain Bluntschli and John Gielgud as Major Sergius Saranoff.

A second BBC audio version was produced in 1984 and broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in February 2009 starring Andrew Sachs as Captain Bluntschli and Gary Bonds as Major Saranoff.