The wing was funded entirely by Oliver Postgate using royalties received from the BBC.

" By 7 January, that storyline had generated the most complaints in show history: the BBC received about 8, 500 complaints, and media regulator Ofcom received 374.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

In 1961, the BBC produced A for Andromeda about a supercomputer artificial intelligence created from instructions received from an alien transmission.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

White Music received favourable reviews and entered the British top 40, but lead single " Statue of Liberty " was banned by the BBC because of its supposedly

In 2008 / 9 the BBC World Service received 12. 4 % of the department's £ 2. 2 billion budget and in the financial year 2011 / 12, the service received £ 255. 2 million from this grant.

* 1967: Vanity Fair: BBC miniseries adapted by Rex Tucker starring Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973.

The lead single from the album, " Kayleigh ", received major promotion by EMI and gained heavy rotation on BBC Radio 1 and Independent Local Radio stations as well as television appearances, bringing the band to the attention of a much wider audience.

The song received crucial airplay on BBC Radio 1 and DJ John Peel's evening show, and Bauhaus was subsequently asked to record a session for Peel's show, which was broadcast on January 3, 1980.

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.

BBC Radio 4 is the second most popular domestic radio station in the UK, and is broadcast throughout the United Kingdom on FM, LW and DAB, and can be received in the north of France and Northern Europe as well.

The BBC wanted to cancel Last of the Summer Wine for years in favour of a new programme aimed at a younger audience, but the show remained too popular for cancellation ; even repeats received ratings of as much as five million viewers per episode.

Sir Alec Guinness presented him with a lifetime achievement honour at the inaugural British Comedy Awards in 1990, while he received another such honour at the BBC Centenary Programme in 1996.

In 2004, following a complaint made by Andrew Rosindell MP, Abbott was investigated by the Committee on Standards and Privileges regarding payment she had received from the BBC.

It was very well received by the studio audience and the BBC agreed to proceed with a series.

Scott's novelty record " My Brother " ( written by Mitch Murray, released 1962 on PYE ) was based on this schoolboy character ( he dressed in the uniform to sing it on TV ) and received regular airplay on BBC Radio ( in particular Ed ' Stewpot ' Stewart's Saturday and Sunday morning programme Junior Choice which was simultaneous broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and 2 ) for many years.

The show received less critical acclaim than the similar BBC family sitcom 2point4 children, also written by Andrew Marshall.

BBC presenter Richard Dimbleby, who broadcast the president's funeral from Washington, said that the regular programme was scrapped when news of the assassination was received and that the programme was a good expression of the sorrow felt in Britain.

However, the BBC received many complaints from organisations and establishment figures about the show's content.

At the end of 2010, Business Week and BBC News reported that Borders would be delaying its payments to publishers for inventory already received, in order to preserve liquidity.

Although McGann received praises for his dramatic performance, the drama was never re-broadcast on the BBC.

The audience of children between 4 and 14 listening to these programmes was reported to be just 25, 000 and in February 2011 the BBC Trust approved a reduction in annual hours dedicated to children from 1400 to 350.

Taking part in the BBC Cymru Wales TV series Coming Home in November 2010, Williams discovered she was the first member of her family to have been born outside Wales in all the 350 years of her known family tree.

The main theatre, the Donald Gordon Theatre, has 1, 897 seats, the BBC Hoddinott Hall 350 and the Weston Studio Theatre 250.

Phase 2 includes the 350 seater BBC Hoddinott Hall (), also known simply as Hoddinott Hall, which is named after the late Welsh classical composer Alun Hoddinott CBE ( August 11, 1929 – March 12, 2008 ), and the Grace Williams Studio, which is named after another Welsh composer, Grace Williams ( February 19, 1906 – February 10, 1977 ), and is used as a centre for education and outreach work.

It has been picked as one of 100 objects in BBC ’ s A History of the World Project, in partnership with the British Museum and 350 museums and institutions across the country.

The resulting controversy resulted in the BBC being forced to apologise to viewers, after receiving 350 complaints.

350 complaints were made to the BBC about swearing before the 9pm watershed.

Shortening their name to " The Pogues " ( partly due to BBC censorship following complaints from Gaelic speakers in Scotland ) they released their first album Red Roses for Me on Stiff Records that October.

In 1944, he was temporarily banned from the BBC following complaints about a series of lectures he gave on air in which he gave full vent to his anti-German feelings.

After the transmission in January 1985 there were quite a few official complaints about the content of the serial to both the BBC itself and the Radio Times.

At the time, the band was told by the BBC that they had received the most complaints ever.

The track was performed on the children's show Blue Peter but complaints arose due to drug references and the record was subsequently banned by the BBC.

In total, the BBC received 55, 000 complaints.

The BBC ordered the series ' next producer, Graham Williams, to lighten the tone and reduce the violence and horror following Whitehouse's complaints.

* The BBCs investigation into Gilligan's report was flawed, and " the Governors should have recognised more fully than they did that their duty to protect the independence of the BBC was not incompatible with giving proper consideration to whether there was validity in the Government's complaints "

While some of these measures are being recognised by the BBC and Government, the audience numbers for the station began falling and attempts by Wright to make programmes more accessible and predictable was met with complaints from loyal listeners.

In an edition of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation on BBC Radio 4 " How to be Afraid ," broadcast on 9 September 2004, Hardy suggested that members of the BNP, and anyone voting for them, should be " shot in the back of the head ," sparking complaints and causing Burnley Borough Council to cancel a show scheduled on their premises due to fears that it could be disruptive in a town that has a recent history of racial tension.

Despite several official complaints from the BBC, BARB continues to publish figures which the BBC argues are unrepresentative.

From December 2010, Hunniford has appeared in Rip Off Britain, a consumer complaints programme on BBC Television along with Angela Rippon and Jennie Bond.

The BBC describes it as ' moderately offensive ' and ' almost certain ' to generate complaints if used before the watershed.

The BBC, after having received 120 formal complaints, issued a public apology to Salmond regretting the " rude and dismissive " tone of the presenter.

He also established and chaired the Complaints Management Board, which oversees the handling of complaints across the BBC.

The BBC planned to replace the main Top of the Pops on Christmas Day 2008 with TOTP2 with some live performances and archive footage to be shown including the 2008 Christmas number one ( UK single ), these plans were later scrapped due to complaints by viewers.

Jerry Springer: The Opera was the subject of controversy beginning in January 2005, when its UK television broadcast on BBC Two elicited 55, 000 complaints.

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.

The BBC received more than 2, 000 complaints and later apologised to viewers for causing offence, stating that the edition should not have been broadcast live, but rather should have been recorded and edited.

On 3 July 2008, it was reported that the BBC Trust's editorial complaints unit had cleared the programme of any wrongdoing.