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.

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.

The BBC News Channel moved from the Studio N8 set ( now home to BBC World News ) to what was the home of the national news in Studio N6, allowing the Channel to share its set with the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Ten – with other bulletins moving to studio TC7.

At the BBC, Orwell introduced Voice, a literary programme for his Indian broadcasts, and by now was leading an active social life with literary friends, particularly on the political left.

The series, originally shown on BBC One, is now available on DVD and is regularly repeated in the United Kingdom on Gold.

Milligan's next major TV venture was the sketch comedy series The World of Beachcomber ( 1968 ), made in colour for BBC 2 ; however, it is believed all 19 episodes are now lost.

In addition TV programming from talk and news outlets such as BBC, CNN, Bloomberg and Fox are now often available expanding the world of talk radio further.

Diggle claimed in his autobiography that he and Shelley had only granted the BBC use of their name under the impression that it would be a one-off, probably unsuccessful pilot, and that they are now mildly disgruntled that the name is more readily associated in Britain with the TV series than with their band.

Broadcast transmitters, which belonged to the BBC and IBA, were privatised during the 1990s and now belong to National Grid Wireless, VT Communications and Arqiva.

Many people no longer use cassette tapes for music listening and, in a few countries, cassette tapes are only used for language learning, which is now significantly declining thanks to podcasts from BBC or CNN or trends of ( foreign-language learning ) publishers which adopt MP3 file services or attached CDs rather than attaching tapes to their publications.

In recent years, video content has also been used by the World Service ; 16 language services now show video reports in that language on the service's website and two services now have dedicated television channels-BBC Arabic launched in 2008 and BBC Persian launched in 2009.

* BBC Battlefield Academy: Battle of Trafalgar game created by Solaris Media ( now Playniac ) for the bicentenary.

Kenneth Wolstenholme DFC & Bar ( 17 July 1920 – 25 March 2002 ) was the football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s, most notable for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup which included the famous phrase " some people are on the pitch ... they think it's all over .... it is now!

Since 1 January 1951, five 15-minute episodes ( since 1998, six 12½-minute episodes ) have been transmitted each week, at first on the BBC Light Programme and subsequently on the BBC Home Service ( now Radio 4 ).

Douglas Smith ( c. 1910-15 October 1972 ) began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service ( now the World Service ) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme.

In 1999, DJ Simon Mayo commented on BBC Radio 1: " Marillion ... where are they now?

Reviewing the band's appearance on BBC Two's The Future Just Happened in 2001, Gareth McLean of The Guardian described the band as " once dodgy and now completely rubbish " and their fans as " slightly simple folks ".

The untransmitted pilot episode, " Adam Adamant Lives ", now no longer exists in the BBC Archives, and is believed to be lost forever.

Citing differences with the BBC and his dislike of their indifference towards the series, Bell said, " I have now decided I will not do it again.

The book now contains transcripts of all Hitchhikers radio sketches, barring a sketch for Marvin that Adams wrote for the BBC Radio 1 show Studio B15 to promote the television version of the serial, which was broadcast in 1982.

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

On 18 December the BBC broadcast his radio play The Eye of the Beholder ( later revised as The Voice of One ) in which an avante-garde artist is commissioned to paint a church mural.

In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a television series of satirical sketches based on the Establishment club, but it was not picked up straight away and Cook went to New York for a year to perform in Beyond The Fringe on Broadway.

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 ?".

After losing the rights to screen Neighbours in the United Kingdom to Five, the BBC commissioned new serial Out of the Blue as its replacement.

For Series 4 ( 2008 ), a new design of Screwdriver was commissioned by the BBC.

Later that year, he was commissioned by the BBC to write and star in Q5, the first in the innovative " Q " TV series, acknowledged as an important precursor to Monty Python's Flying Circus, which premiered several months later.

However there was a hiatus of several years before the BBC commissioned Q6 in 1975.

He was the author of the world's first radio play, Danger, commissioned from him for the BBC by Nigel Playfair and broadcast on January 15, 1924.

Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.

Announced on 26 January 2007, BBC Radio 4 commissioned Above the Title Productions to make eighteen 30-minute adaptations of Douglas Adams ' Dirk Gently books ( including The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt ), running in three series of six episodes.

When Beyond Our Ken came to an end in 1964, the BBC commissioned a replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.

BBC Radio 4 had commissioned a third Dirk Gently six-part radio series for broadcast in mid-2010, based on the uncompleted chapters of The Salmon of Doubt, and written by Spice World writer Kim Fuller.

Instead of Mirrorball, a new series of Absolutely Fabulous was proposed to the BBC, who later commissioned the fourth series in 2001.

After Lighthill received a green-light from BBC Radio in 1996, he commissioned a script from Tony Mulholland, resulting in a new, two-part adaptation.

In 2000 the BBC commissioned a genetic survey of the British Isles by a team from University College London led by Professor David Goldstein for its programme ' Blood of the Vikings '.

In 1976, the BBC commissioned a pilot episode from Palin and Jones, envisioned to be a light entertainment comedy piece.

The BBC had planned to conclude Blake's 7 at the end of its third series, but a further series was unexpectedly commissioned.

Although ratings declined compared to the first series, the BBC commissioned a third.

In December 2008, Alan J. W. Bell stated in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that the BBC had not yet commissioned a new series and that bosses at the network told him one would not be produced.

In 1978, the BBC commissioned a Last of the Summer Wine Christmas special instead of a new series.

Other British sitcoms such as Steptoe and Son and Dad's Army had previously produced films made for the cinema, but the BBC were initially sceptical as they had never before commissioned a film based on a comedy programme for original broadcast on television.

With repeats of Open All Hours earning high ratings on BBC One, the BBC commissioned a further series of the show in 1981, with another two made as well as the show continued its ratings success.

Following the success of Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute, Barker wanted to return the The Two Ronnies to television and the BBC commissioned The Two Ronnies Sketchbook, a clip show of their best sketches along with newly recorded introductions.