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.

Notable enterprises which produced discs of such software are BBC PD, Electron User Group and HeadFirst PD.

In 1982, the BBC produced The Tale of Beatrix Potter.

Other programming produced solely by the BBC News channel includes the BBC News at Five with Huw Edwards ( including Film 24 with Mark Kermode at 17: 45 on Fridays, Sportsday ( at 18: 45, except on Fridays and Saturdays when it is from 18: 30, plus 22: 30 every weekday ) and Newswatch ( Friday 20: 45, Saturday 07: 45 ).

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.

Graves's two books were the basis for a British television adaptation produced by the BBC.

In 2008, he presented a reality TV talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC entitled Maestro, starring eight celebrities who are " famous amateurs with a passion for classical music.

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.

In 1959 Daphne Oram produced a novel method of synthesis, her " Oramics " technique, driven by drawings on a 35 mm film strip ; it was used for a number of years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Radio collaborations include Euroclassic Notturno – an overnight classical music stream, produced by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast in the United Kingdom as Through the Night – and special theme days, such as the annual Christmas music relays from around Europe.

BBC Radio produced a one-off dramatisation of the novel in 1982 starring Michael Pennington.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

* Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century, a BBC drama produced for TV in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when British intelligence investigated Kim Philby's colleague Donald Maclean until 1955 when the British government cleared Philby because it did not have enough evidence to convict him.

The BBC was unable to secure the rights to turn Busman's Honeymoon into a proposed fourth and last part of the planned 13-episode series, so the series was produced as ten episodes.

An example of a comedy film that targets a more general audience is Strange Company's Tum Raider, produced for the BBC in 2004.

Whitehouse wrote, produced and appeared with Chris Langham in the 2005 comedy drama Help, also for the BBC.

Whitehouse and Charlie Higson produced and appeared in a spoof phone-in show Down the Line on BBC Radio 4.

The BBC also produced several serials.

Pobol y Cwm ( People of the Valley ) is a Welsh language serial produced by the BBC since October 1974.

It is the longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC.

The first known piece of television science fiction anywhere in the world was produced by the BBC on February 11, 1938, a thirty-five-minute adaptation of a section of the play R. U. R ..

Her funeral was televised live on domestic and international stations, including the BBC.

The first radio commentary of the race was broadcast by Meyrick Good and George Allison on the BBC in 1927 ; the first televised coverage was in 1960 with commentary led by Peter O ' Sullevan.

In this book he explored in depth various theories and beliefs about time as well as his own research and unique conclusions, including an analysis of the phenomenon of precognitive dreaming, based in part on a broad sampling of experiences gathered from the British public, who responded enthusiastically to a televised appeal he made while being interviewed in 1963 on the BBC programme, Monitor.

Thus no new series was produced until 2005, after all the contractual rights had returned to the BBC, and the movie became McGann's only televised appearance as the Eighth Doctor.

Most of its concerts are broadcast on BBC Radio 3, streamed online and available as podcasts for a week after broadcast, and a number are televised: the orchestra's website claims that this gives the BBC " the highest broadcast profile of any UK orchestra ".

Shortly after Buffy ended its seven year televised run, there was talk of a Giles-based spin-off series for the BBC entitled Ripper.

In the UK, all concerts are broadcast on BBC Radio 3, an increasing number are televised on BBC Four with some also shown on BBC One and BBC Two.

In June 2011, The BBC televised the assisted suicide of Peter Smedley, a canning factory owner, who was suffering from motor neurone disease.

* February 23 – the first televised boxing match, the British Lightweight Champion match Eric Boon v Arthur Danaher, is shown live by the BBC and simultaneously in several cinemas.

* April 1 – The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is first televised by the BBC.

* April 19 – The first televised football ( soccer ) match, England v Scotland, shown on the BBC.

* April 23 – The FA Cup Final is televised for the first time by the BBC.

* May 14 – The first quiz show, Spelling Bee, is televised by the BBC.

* October 26 – The first televised ice hockey match, Harringay Racers v Streatham Redskins, shown on the BBC.

* June 21 – Wimbledon Championships ( tennis ) first televised by the BBC.

The ceremony has been televised each year by the BBC since 1946.

In a Doha Debate Forum televised by the BBC in 2006, Moussa was asked about his presidential hopes.

The final round of the first ever televised leaders ' debates, hosted by the BBC, was held at the university during the 2010 British general election campaign on the 29 April 2010.

The following series of famous " floodlit friendlies ", beginning with a game against a South African XI, had a huge effect in raising the profile of the club, enthusing many such as the young Wolves fan George Best and others who were lucky enough to be able to watch the games on the BBC in some of football's first televised games.

These high-profile games continued against top national sides such as Racing Club of Argentina and Spartak Moscow of the USSR, before meeting Honvéd of Hungary in a landmark game for English football, televised live on the BBC.