It has 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC v2 along with its operating system.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

In more recent times, Boudica has been the subject of numerous documentaries, including some by Discovery Channel, History International Channel ( now known as H2 ), and the BBC.

Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.

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.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

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

Since the launch of Breakfast in 2000, the programme has been simulcast on both BBC One and BBC News, replacing the individual breakfast news programmes that had been run by both channels.

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.

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.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

Clive Anderson has appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Unbelievable Truth hosted by David Mitchell.

Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980.

The BBC Radio programme, Desert Island Discs, in which guests usually choose their favourite songs, has heard 45 participants select a Dylan Thomas recording.

Joan Plowright, Olivier's widow, has dealt with the matter in different ways on different occasions: she deflected the question ( but alluded to Olivier's " demons ") in a BBC interview.

She has been called " the world's most famous sheep " by sources including BBC News and Scientific American.

It has daily features, updates and links to news reports from The New York Times and the BBC.

The move has attracted some criticism as to how it relates directly to the disappearance of the toddler, but the BBC has defended its actions by stating that " In the current circumstances it was felt any storyline that included a child abduction would be inappropriate and could cause distress to our viewers.

* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.

* Aquila ( TV series ), a BBC TV production for children based on the Norriss book

At its peak, the Electron was the third best selling micro in the United Kingdom, and total lifetime game sales for the Electron exceeded those of the BBC Micro.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

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.

This was a blow from which the machine never fully recovered, although games sales for it would ultimately outstrip those of the BBC Micro.

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.

Although this produced a mode 7 that barely impacted upon CPU performance and gave the same visual quality as the BBC Micro, it remained compatible only with software that used the ROM routines for outputting text and graphics and still used 10 kB of memory for the display.

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 '

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.

On 17 October 1967, Korner interviewed The Jimi Hendrix Experience for the BBC radio showTop Gear.

In the UK, the BBC Micro based OBBS software, available from Pace for use with their modems, optionally allowed for colour and graphics using the Teletext based graphics mode available on that platform.

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

* The BBC Micro home computer from 1982, built for the BBC by Acorn Computers Ltd

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

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

The story of the men's claims was covered by many major news networks, including BBC, CNN, ABC News, and Fox News.

The BBC began simulcasting the channel overnight on terrestrial channel BBC One with the launch of the channel, ending the tradition of a closedown but at the same time effectively making the service available to many more viewers.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

The BBC said her documentaries “ were hailed as groundbreaking film-making, pioneering techniques involving cranes, tracking rails, and many cameras working at the same time ”.

A 2012 report by the BBC claimed that " interest in lucid dreaming has grown in recent years ", and corroborated this with examples of the many telephone apps that exist to help people experience the phenomenon.

Before settling on that standard, there were many different equalizations in use, including EMI, HMV, Columbia, Decca FFRR, NAB, Ortho, BBC transcription, etc.

After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

In the 1960s, the French animator Serge Danot created the well-known The Magic Roundabout ( 1965 ) which played for many years on the BBC.

In the 2010 BBC television drama Sherlock, many of the characters such as DI Lestrade, DI Dimmock, Sgt Donovan and Anderson work for Scotland Yard.

The BBC states that squatting was " a big issue in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 and again for the Diggers in the 17th Century were peasants who cultivated waste and common land, claiming it as their rightful due " and that squatting was a necessity after the Second World War when so many were homeless.

In the later years of the series many Goon Show ' grams ' were produced for the series by members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a notable example being the famous " Major Bloodnok's Stomach " effect, realised by Dick Mills.

The dimensions and colour of the TARDIS props used in the series have changed many times, as a result of damage and the needs of the show, and none of the BBC props has been a faithful replica of the original MacKenzie Trench model.

* October 23 – The world learns from moving BBC News TV reports that a famine is plaguing Ethiopia, where thousands of people have already died of starvation due to a famine and as many as 10, 000, 000 more lives are at risk.

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.

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting news, speech and discussions in 27 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays.

News and information is available on all these languages on the BBC Website with many having RSS feeds and specific versions for use on mobile phones and some also using email notification of stories.

The school has links with many local theatres and television companies, such as Granada and the BBC.

Since then, the Cockney accent has been more accepted as an alternative form of the English Language rather than an ' inferior ' one ; in the 1950s the only accent to be heard on the BBC ( except in entertainment programmes such as Sooty ) was RP, whereas nowadays many different accents, including Cockney or ones heavily influenced by it, can be heard on the BBC.

This curve, which came out of work done by the BBC Research Department, and was standardised by the CCIR and later adopted by many other standards bodies ( IEC, BSI /) and,, is maintained by the ITU.

Regrettably, many of the videotapes and film reels of these seminal TV shows were later erased by the BBC ( an affliction which wiped out large portions of other British television productions as well, such as Doctor Who ), although some of the soundtracks ( which were issued on record ) have survived.

Brooke-Taylor has acted in many other television sitcoms, as well as appearing in the 1970s BBC radio sketch show Hello, Cheeky!