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.

The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational / home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd.

This made it possible to connect a 5¼ ” floppy disc drive as used by BBC Micro owners or a more common 3½ ” drive.

To this day, it and BBC Parliament remain the only BBC " digital " channels which are made available to analogue cable subscribers.

A full three minute version of the countdown music was made available on BBC News Online and David Lowe's own after a remix on 16 May 2006.

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

* 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.

Operated by a specially created Welsh Fourth Channel Authority, S4C would air programmes in Welsh as made by HTV, the BBC, or from independent companies.

* BBC TWO Chinese food made easy

This discovery was made public in a BBC TV programme in 1999, reviving debate about Soviet links to CND.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

The Tube is a television documentary originally made by ITV in 2002 in October 2011 the director of BBC Two announced announced a " new " TV series called ' The Tube ' which looks into the life of those who work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.

Several Lord Peter Wimsey novels were made into television productions by the BBC, in two separate series.

Ian Carmichael starred as Wimsey in radio adaptations of the novels made by the BBC, all of which have been available on cassette and CD from the BBC Radio Collection.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

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

A 30-minute TV short film A Boy In Darkness ( also made in 2000 and adapted from Peake's novella ) was the first production from the BBC Drama Lab.

Starting in 1989, Palin appeared as presenter in a series of travel programmes made for the BBC.

In this period he made regular television appearances on the current affairs programmes In The News ( BBC ) and subsequently Free Speech ( ITV ).

Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944, while Lewis was at Oxford during World War II.

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.

Beginning with black and white adaptations of Nigel Kneale's BBC science fiction serials The Quatermass Experiment ( 1955 ) and Quatermass II ( 1957 ), Hammer quickly graduated to deceptively lavish colour versions of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy.

In the summer of 1953, BBC staff writer Nigel Kneale created The Quatermass Experiment, the first of several Quatermass serials.

He added " Blake's 7s triumph lay in its vivid characters, its tight, pacey plots and its satisfying realism ... For arguably the first time since the 1950s Quatermass serials, the BBC had created a popular sci-fi / fantasy show along adult lines.

Lime Grove would be home to many BBC TV shows over the next forty-two years, including: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Quatermass II, Steptoe and Son, Doctor Who, Nationwide, Top of the Pops and the 1950s soap opera The Grove Family took the name of its title family from the studios, where it was made.

The BBC also used the studio facilities at Ealing for filmed inserts where the electronic studio could not be used, such as for the excavation site in Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ), The White Rabbit ( TV mini-series, 1967 ), Colditz ( 1972 – 74 ) and the communal sequences in Porridge ( 1974 – 77 ).

Hammer's first significant experiment with horror came in the form of a 1955 adaptation of Nigel Kneale's BBC Television science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment, which was directed by Val Guest.

He appeared in the 1955 BBC Television serial Quatermass II, had a role in the Powell and Pressburger wartime drama Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), and came to wide popular attention in Britain when he played the duplicitous Spanish envoy Mendoza in the ITC Entertainment series Sir Francis Drake ( 1961 – 62 ), after which he was much in demand ; an ' in-joke ' in the 1971 Doctor Who story Colony in Space refers to that role: the Brigadier tells the Doctor not to worry — the suspected sighting of the Master was only the Spanish Ambassador!

The writer and critic Kim Newman has cited another influence on the novel, saying that in it King had " more or less rewritten Quatermass and the Pit ," a 1950s BBC television science-fiction serial involving the excavation of a long-buried alien spacecraft, and the growing influence of the dormant machine on surrounding human beings.

Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional scientist, originally created by the writer Nigel Kneale for BBC Television.

Quatermass appeared in three influential BBC science fiction serials of the 1950s, and returned in a final serial for Thames Television in 1979.

The character of Quatermass has been described by BBC News Online as Britain's first television hero, and by The Independent newspaper as " A brilliantly conceived and finely crafted creation ... remained a modern ' Mr Standfast ', the one fixed point in an increasingly dreadful and ever-shifting universe.

Nigel Kneale conceived the character of Quatermass in 1953, when he was assigned in his capacity as a BBC television staff drama writer to create a new six-part serial to run on Saturday nights in July and August.

A few months beforehand he had directed a play entitled It Is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer for the BBC, and he offered the role of Quatermass to one of the stars of that play, André Morell.

At roughly the same time as Quatermass II was being transmitted by the BBC, Hammer Film Productions released their film adaptation of the first serial in British cinemas.

By the early 1970s Kneale was once again regularly writing for the BBC, who announced plans to produce a fourth Quatermass serial in 1972.

This was not in the event made by the BBC, but Kneale's scripts did see production in 1979, as a four-part serial for Thames Television called Quatermass.

In 2005, the digital television channel BBC Four produced a new version of The Quatermass Experiment, transmitted live as the original had been.

In 1995, BBC radio producer Paul Quinn approached Kneale with the idea of making a new radio series based around Quatermass, and the resulting project was produced and aired as the five-part serial The Quatermass Memoirs on BBC Radio 3 in the spring of 1996.

The BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who has often been heavily influenced by the various Quatermass serials, and despite Kneale's dislike of it (" It sounded a terrible idea and I still think it was ," he commented in 1986 ) and his refusal to write for it, unofficial references to Quatermass have appeared in the programme and its spinoffs.

In February 1959 the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show broadcast a parody of Quatermass and the Pit, entitled " The Scarlet Capsule ".

* Quatermass and the Pit ( BBC Television, 1958 – 59 )

Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial, originally transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959.

These tracks were created especially for the serial by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, overseen by Desmond Briscoe ; their work on Quatermass and the Pit was one of the productions for which Briscoe and the Workshop became most renowned.

Made just prior to the introduction of early videotape machines into general use at the BBC, all six episodes of Quatermass and the Pit were preserved for a possible repeat by being telerecorded onto 35 mm film.

Quatermass and the Pit was the last original production upon which Kneale collaborated with Rudolph Cartier, although Cartier did direct a new version of Kneale's 1953 adaptation of Wuthering Heights for the BBC in 1962.

The Times newspaper reported the day after the final episode that members of Hereford City Council had " rejected last night a proposal that they should suspend standing orders to adjourn so that members could watch the final instalment of Quatermass and the Pit, the BBC television serial.

If you are wondering how you missed the ritual complaints which now follow every programme like this from offstage right, it is because the play was Quatermass and the Pit, which the BBC has just released on video.

Comparing The Pit to The Daemons, many people have noted the similarities between this story's plot and that of the 1958 BBC serial and 1967 Hammer film.

A 1959 episode of The Goon Show, a BBC radio comedy series, parodied Quatermass and the Pit.

Quatermass returned to the BBC in 1958 when Kneale's third serial, Quatermass and the Pit, began transmission.

For this reason, although Nigel Kneale had written a new Quatermass serial for the BBC, Quatermass and the Pit ( broadcast December 1958 to January 1959 ), Hammer did not acquire the rights until 1961 and the film version did not appear until 1967.

Like its predecessors it is based on a BBC Television serial – Quatermass and the Pit – written by Nigel Kneale.

Kneale went on to write a third Quatermass serial – Quatermass and the Pit – for the BBC, which was broadcast in December 1958 and January 1959.

His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1959 ).

Englander worked on film inserts for highly prestigious BBC dramas such as Rudolph Cartier's Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1961 ), and later programmes such as Doctor Who, Dad's Army, Colditz and Maigret.

Cec Linder as paleontologist Doctor Matthew Roney in the BBC One | BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958-59 )

In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ).

Following the death of former world champion James Hunt, former British driver Jonathan Palmer moved from Pit Lane reporter and took Hunt's place in the BBC commentary booth for the race.

Street sign of Hobbs Lane from the BBC TV serial Quatermass and the Pit.

The 1958 BBC science fiction television serial Quatermass and the Pit centered around the discovery of alien artifacts uncovered during the construction of a new office block at the fictional street location Hobbs Lane ( once called ' Hob's Lane ', from an old sign seen ) in Knightsbridge, SW1, London.