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.

The BBC published BBC BASIC, developed for them by Acorn Computers Ltd, incorporating many extra structuring keywords and advanced floating-point operation features.

* BEEB, a BBC children's magazine published in 1985

On 19 June 2008 the BBC published a time line of the conflict and reported that the " Border dispute rumbles on ":

For instance, on September 23, 2001, the BBC published an article that suggested Mihdhar and others named as hijackers were still at large.

* Phllby has a key role in Mike Ripley's short story " Gold Sword " published in ' John Creasey's Crime Collection 1990 ' which was chosen as BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Story to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day on 6th June 1994.

Renwick integrated some of the plots and dialogue from the series into a novel, which was first published by BBC Books in 1992.

The relative severity of various British profanities, as perceived by the public, was studied on behalf of the British Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission, BBC and Advertising Standards Authority ; the results of this jointly commissioned research were published in December 2000 in a paper called " Delete expletives ?".

" The Sentinel " was written in 1948 for a BBC competition ( in which it failed to place ) and was first published in the magazine 10 Story Fantasy in 1951, under the title " Sentinel of Eternity ".

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.

* In the 2007, Doctor Who novel Made of Steel ( ISBN 1846072042 ) written by Terrance Dicks, featuring the Tenth Doctor, published by BBC Books, the Cybermen have made the empty dome their base.

In its Year Book 1931 the BBC published a major article about " The Use of Sound Effects ".

This has been published by BBC Books since 2003 and is updated annually for the Christmas gift-giving season.

* The Maltese Falcon ( 2001 ), an audio adaptation by the BBC starring Jane Lapotaire, Tom Wilkinson, and Peter Acre was published as an audio book in 2001 and broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2009.

His book, The Victorians: Britain through the Paintings of the Age, published in 2009, was accompanied by a BBC documentary series.

* The audio recording of ElvenQuest, published by BBC Audio in August 2009, ISBN 139781408439241

In 2009, the BBC republished a Soviet booklet on Afghanistan first published in 1987, giving vital tips to Internationalist soldiers and officers.

BBC Books published a novelisation of this serial on 15 March 2012, written by Gareth Roberts.

The Editor's Note to The Complete Yes Prime Minister ( supposedly published in 2024 after Hacker's death but actually published by the BBC in 1989 ), thanks " Sir Bernard Woolley GCB " for his help and confirms that he did indeed make it to the position of Head of the Civil Service.

The scripts were edited and transformed into prose, and published by BBC Books in the form of diaries.

My Life with Harold Pinter was published in January 2010 and she read a shortened version as BBC Radio Four's Book of the Week that month.

She has published numerous comic and satirical novels, and written radio and TV plays for the BBC.

( via the total number of ports that the BBC Micro had, it exposed all lines )

The total number of lines exposed via the Cartridge port almost matched those from the 1MHz bus of the BBC.

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

* In 2002, on a UK poll broadcast by the BBC, Chaplin was ranked number 66 on a list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

BBC Radio 2 presenter Steve Wright uses factoids extensively ( and occasionally incorrectly ; one recent example ( September 2012 ) defined a Googol as the number 1 followed by < i > one million </ i > zeroes.

Peel appeared occasionally on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes.

The ' number of weapons ' joke echoes a similar joke in the first episode " The Man and The Hour " of the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, broadcast in July 1968.

The BBC / Discovery Channel documentary Congo ( 2001 ) interviewed a number of tribe members who identified a photograph of a rhinoceros as being a Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

During a 2008 interview with the BBC, Major General Qian Lihua, a senior Chinese defense official, stated that the PLAN aspired to possess a small number of aircraft carriers to allow it to expand China's air defense perimeter.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

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.

Rather than creating a single network with local stations owned and operated by a single company ( as is the case with the BBC ), each local area had a separate television station independently owned and operated, although most of these stations shared a number of programmes.

When UHF television allowed a greater number of television stations to broadcast, the BBC launched a second network, BBC Two ( and the original service was later renamed BBC One ).

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

In recent years, the number and type of services offered by the BBC has decreased due to financial pressures.

A number of Viewdata Bulletin Board Systems existed in the 1980s, predominantly in the UK due to the proliferation of the BBC Microcomputer, and a short-lived Viewdata Revival appeared in the late 1990s fuelled by the retro-computing vogue.

The Archers is the most listened to Radio 4 non-news programme, with over five million listeners, and it holds the BBC Radio programme record for the number of times listened to over the Internet, with over one million listeners.

Other examples include Felicity Finch ( Ruth Archer ), who also works as a BBC journalist ; having travelled on a number of occasions to Afghanistan, and Ian Pepperell ( Roy Tucker ), who manages a pub in the New Forest.