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.

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.

Breakfast on BBC One then generally continues until 09: 15.

) He continued to read the Times, which was not generally available in the USSR, listened to the BBC World Service, and was an avid follower of cricket.

The term concert orchestra may sometimes be used ( e. g., BBC Concert Orchestra ; RTÉ Concert Orchestra )— no distinction is made on size of orchestra by use of this term, although their use is generally distinguished as for live concert.

According to BBC The Communist Party of Kampuchea ( Cambodia ), better known as the " Khmer Rouge ", identified strongly with Maoism, and is generally labeled a " Maoist " movement today.

It is generally preferred by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ).

* Jonathan Creek, starring Alan Davies, was a series produced by the BBC from 1997 to 2010 ( Creek was a designer of stage illusions, but generally did not perform magic himself ).

* 1979 BBC Version shot on videotape, directed by Desmond Davis, generally considered to be a faithful rendition of the play.

It was here in the Central Research Laboratories ( generally known as " CRL ") that Isaac Shoenberg developed ( 1934 ) the all-electronic 405-line television system ( called the Marconi-EMI system, used by the BBC from 1936 until closedown of the Crystal Palace 405-line transmissions in 1985 ).

Although Basildon is situated within the Essex Region, the Town generally receives the London television channels, such as BBC London, and ITV London.

* A British television show called Spelling Bee, featuring adult contestants and broadcast by the BBC on 31 May 1938, is generally held to have been the world's first television game show.

However, BBC World News itself is not currently widely available in the US as a separate channel ( although it does appear on several cable systems throughout the United States, generally in lieu of BBC America ; one previous example is the New York based service Cablevision which until August 2011, did not carry BBC America ) or in a 30-minute telecast on public television stations daily.

Michael Palumbo, author of The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland, reviewing the first edition of Morris's book on Palestinian refugees, criticizes Morris's decision, which Palumbo thinks characteristic of Israeli revisionist historians generally, to rely mainly on official, ' carefully screened ' Israeli sources, especially for radio transcripts of Arab broadcasts, while disregarding unofficial Israeli sources such as BBC and CIA transcripts, many of which point to a policy of expulsion.

The BBC operates several television networks, television stations ( although there is generally very little distinction between the two terms in the UK ), and related programming services in the United Kingdom.

Although generally well received in both America and overseas ( such as the United Kingdom, where it was broadcast on BBC One on Monday evenings ), the show was not renewed for another season, mostly due to the ratings not justifying the high cost of production.

The film was a box-office failure ; however, Kapoor's performance was generally enjoyed by critics ( with the BBC describing her as " a pure natural ").

Jackson's time at BBC Two was generally seen as a great success — he was described by The Guardian in 1996 as " one of the best controllers BBC2 has ever had.

However, his natural genuflection to those in power ensured that his five years in charge of the BBC were generally very stable and secure for the organisation, in stark contrast to the subsequent director-generalship of Alasdair Milne.

He was the Director-General of the BBC from 1960 ― 1969, and is generally credited with modernising an organisation that had fallen behind in the wake of the launch of ITV in 1955.

CBBC programmes are also broadcast in high definition alongside other BBC content on the BBC HD channel, generally from 3: 30pm to 7pm on weekends, unless the channel is covering other events.

Prior to this, the station generally stopped broadcasting at around 6pm, and handed over to BBC Radio 2 which was carried on the station's frequencies until the following morning although for the three years prior to the launch of Night Network, Radio Humberside had broadcast the Yorkshire-wide early evening specialist music programmes which were also carried on Radios York, Leeds and Sheffield.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

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 ).

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

For example, the BBC website, which had previously been called BBC Online, took on the BBCi brand from 2001, displaying an i-bar across the top of every page, offering a category-based navigation: Categories, TV, Radio, Communicate, Where I Live, A-Z Index, and a search.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

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.

Since 21 April 2008, the overnight bulletins, while produced by the BBC News Channel, have usually been broadcast from the studios of BBC World News.

Since Tuesday, 26 May 2009, those bulletins have been broadcast from TC7 and N6 in Television Centre, the main studios of BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel respectively.

Various changes have been made to the music and visuals since then, with presentation following the style of BBC News.