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.

Although Acorn were able to shrink substantially the same functionality as the BBC into just one chip, manufacturing problems meant that very few machines were available for the Christmas period — to the extent that some shops reported eight presales for every delivered machine.

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

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

On 15 July 2009, Encyclopædia Britannica was awarded a spot as one of " Top Ten Superbrands in the UK " by a panel of more than 2, 000 independent reviewers, as reported by the BBC.

The BBC reported that in 2002 work done by Edward Castronova showed that Everquest was the 77th richest country in the world, sandwiched between Russia and Bulgaria and its GDP per capita was higher than that of the People's Republic of China and India.

On the 6th of February 2008, the BBC reported that heavy rain might lead to a release of water from the dam, which would force 50, 000 people downstream to evacuate.

During its review of the CCX, BBC television program Top Gear reported that the Koenigsegg CCR holds the fastest speeding ticket in the United States, which was supposedly for in a zone.

BBC News reported that the scientists had made sonar contact with a large unidentified object of unusual size and strength.

A campaign is currently underway ( reported on BBC Radio 4, Today programme, 10 July 2004 ) to encourage emigration from the UK to Saint Helena to aid development of the economy.

BBC news http :// www. bbc. co. uk / news / science-environment-12811197 reported on a study that attempted to use mathematical modelling (' nonlinear dynamics ') to predict future religious orientations of populations.

On September 23, 2001, before the FBI had released the pictures of the hijackers, the BBC and The Daily Telegraph reported that a Saudi Airlines pilot named Saeed al-Ghamdi was furious that a name on the hijacker's list released by the FBI matched his own.

The BBC TV reported thee Nile crocodile which has lurked a long time underwater to catch prey, has built up a large oxygen debt.

A demonstration of large screen three-dimensional television by the BBC was reported in March 2008, over 60 years after Baird's demonstration.

Burton was banned permanently from BBC productions in November 1974 for writing two newspaper articles questioning the sanity of Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II – Burton reported hating them " virulently " for the alleged promise to wipe out all Japanese people on the planet.

That same year the BBC reported that Jones was Wales ' wealthiest entertainer, having amassed a fortune of £ 175 million.

" BBC News reported that the cramped plastic coffin offered six inches ( 152 mm ) of headroom and two inches on each side.

In late 2000 a BBC documentary reported the use of enslaved children in the production of cocoa in West Africa.

On 25 July 2008, the BBC reported that hairs collected in the remote Garo Hills area of North-East India by Dipu Marak had been analyzed at Oxford Brookes University in the UK by primatologist Anna Nekaris and microscopy expert Jon Wells.

On August 24, 2007, the BBC reported that Russian archaeologists had found the remains of two children of Russia's last Tsar.

While John Birt was Director General of the BBC, the British press from time to time reported Paxman's criticism of his boss.

It was reported by BBC News and ITV Channel Television on 17 May 2008 that the tenants had put the remaining 40 years of their lease up for sale, with an asking price of £ 15, 000, 000.

as part of a reported perception of a general " malaise " at the BBC.

The BBC reported in an article entitled " Q & A: Equatorial Guinea coup plot ":

The BBC reported on 10 September 2004 that in Zimbabwe:

From 13 June 2011, the weeknight editions of BBC News at 0100, 0200, 0300 and 0400 were replaced with Newsday.

Charles regularly sits in for Janice Long, Steve Wright and Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2, and has presented numerous one-off programmes on the station, including The Craig Charles Soul All-Nighter ( 2011 ), which he hosted continuously for 12 hours.

The play-by-play announcer is former BBC Radio commentator Callum Williams who began broadcasting with the 2011 season.

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 October 2011, BBC Four premiered the made-for-TV comedy film Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.

In the United Kingdom, BBC 2 broadcast it on 6 – 7 January 2011.

In 2011 Brian Sibley adapted the story again, this time as six one-hour episodes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as the Classic Serial starting on 10 July 2011.

* Multiverse theory suggested by microwave background, BBC news website, 2011 / 08 / 03

In 2011 Kinnock took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history, the programme was broadcast on 30 November 2011.

Santorini was also named " the world's best island " by the BBC in 2011.

In 2011, BBC Two broadcast, DOUBLE AGENT: The Eddie Chapman Story, a documentary presented by Ben Macintyre based on his book.

On 10 January 2011 the band released their twelfth studio album, Red Barked Tree, which ( according to press release and BBC ) "... rekindles a lyricism sometimes absent from Wire's previous work and reconnects with the live energy of performance, harnessed and channelled from extensive touring over the past few years ".

More service closures came in January 2011 when the closing of five language services was announced as a result of the financial situation the corporation was facing following the eventual financial transfer of responsibility for the World Service from the Foreign Office to the BBC license fee.

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 2008 / 9 the BBC World Service received 12. 4 % of the department's £ 2. 2 billion budget and in the financial year 2011 / 12, the service received £ 255. 2 million from this grant.

The Abbey was also used on 19 March 2011 for the live BBC Three event Frankenstein's Wedding ... Live in Leeds.

BBC Radio 4 Extra has also broadcast, in 2011, two series ( 26 episodes each ) of a twice-weekly spin-off show Ambridge Extra.

The Archers reached its 60th anniversary on 1 January 2011 and to mark this achievement, a special half hour episode was broadcast on Sunday 2 January on BBC Radio 4 from 7pm.

In 2011 this period was made the subject of a BBC documentary titled The Mountain That Had to Be Painted.

BBC World Service, the last of the BBC websites to use RealAudio, discontinued its usage in March 2011.

A radio parody of The Lion in Winter entitled The Leopard in Autumn by Neil Anthony was originally broadcast in BBC Radio 4 in 2001 and 2002 and subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2011.