Pick of the Pops returned to the BBC as an independent production by Unique Broadcasting ( who also produced independent radio's Pepsi Chart ) on BBC Radio 2 in April 1997, with Freeman now counting down two archive charts each week, interspersing trivia about the records, as researched by the producer, Phil Swern.

* The tapes for the revival of BBC show Doctor Who were labeled with the anagram Torchwood, which later went on to be used as the name for a spin-off show.

In 1973 he presented a unique 6-part documentary on BBC Radio 1, The Rolling Stones Story, and in 1977 he established a Sunday-night blues and soul show on Radio 1, Alexis Korner's Blues and Soul show, which ran until 1981.

Scott Mills presented his show from 4: 00 pm to 7: 00 pm live from the BBC Bubble in Edinburgh, as did Nick Grimshaw with his show at 10: 00 pm.

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.

In 1999 the series came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nation's favourite children's show.

In 1983, he was invited to record a session on the John Peel BBC Radio show with his band, performing six poems, which was his first professional engagement.

Charles was a guest on programmes including Janice Long's Radio 1 show, and was a regular panellist on Ned Sherrin's chat show Loose Ends ( 1987-8 ) on BBC Radio 4.

In 2000, the Solid Steel show moved to BBC London.

On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two.

He also covered the Sunday morning 11 AM-1 PM show on BBC Radio 2 through the end of January 2008.

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary making up daffynitions is a popular game on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

" 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.

BBC Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

He moved in to broadcasting, working at the BBC, firstly working as a pundit on Match of the Day before he went on to present the flagship show.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

In the 1980s comedian Andy Cameron presented the Hogmanay show on BBC Scotland while Peter Morrison presented a show called " A Highland Hogmanay " on STV / Grampian.

Since 1993, the programmes that have been mainstays on BBC Scotland on Hogmanay have been Hogmanay Live and Jonathan Watson's football-themed sketch comedy show, Only an Excuse?

* 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two.

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

According to Danny Baker speaking on QI Series G, episode 15 on BBC television, Bolan is a contraction of Bob Dylan.

According to BARB the comedy panel game QI has the highest ratings of any show on BBC Four.

Davies currently appears as the permanent panellist on the BBC quiz game QI, which is hosted by Stephen Fry.

* QI BBC Two, BBC Four ( 2004-2006 ).

QI has the highest viewing figures for any show on BBC Four and Dave.

From series F in 2008 the show moved to BBC One, with extended-length repeats on BBC Two ( titled QI XL ).

Series " A ", was therefore released by BBC Worldwide's DVD venture, 2 entertain Ltd. on 6 November 2006 ( as " QI: The Complete First Series ").

At Talkback Thames, Heggessey has been responsible for overseeing the production of high-profile programmes such as ITV1's The Bill and The X Factor, BBC One's QI and Channel 4's Green Wing .< ref name =" shows ">

He also appeared on The Terry and Gaby Show from 2003 to 2004 ( where he burnt his hand trying to perform a trick with a microwave and a piece of soap ) and has appeared on BBC Two quiz show QI, becoming the show's first ever winner.

The Auxiliary Units formed the basis of a question on the BBC panel game QI.

* The story of Malloy's murder was featured on an episode of the BBC series QI in 2011.

In December 2006, Vaughan made a guest appearance on the BBC comedy panel game QI ( Series D, Episode 10, " Divination ").

He has starred in Tittybangbang on BBC Three and appeared as a panellist on QI.

Hall is a guest on popular BBC panel quiz shows, most notably as a regular guest on QI, for which he has received much critical acclaim and is known as the game's most frequently victorious guest panellist with ten victories ( only permanent panellist Alan Davies has won more shows ), and also with appearances in 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

She has made numerous appearances on BBC TV shows Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, QI, Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Question Time and Newsnight ; she has often joked that the BBC pay her a regular wage for " blabbering on random shows ".

* QI ( Quite Interesting ) is a BBC television programme.

The town of Bitche was mentioned in BBC comedy panel game QI, in episode 9 of season 3 ( or series " C ", as the show refers to the series by letters of the alphabet ).

* QI ( BBC Four / One / Two )

In 2007, he was a researcher and script-writer for the multi-award-winning BBC comedy quiz TV show QI.

A 2005 BBC News report claimed that 8 percent of modern Niger's population continues to be slave, discriminated and routinely humiliated.

A 2012 report by the BBC claimed that " interest in lucid dreaming has grown in recent years ", and corroborated this with examples of the many telephone apps that exist to help people experience the phenomenon.

Kinnock himself later claimed to have half-expected his defeat in the 1992 election and proceeded to turn himself into a media personality, even hosting a chat show on BBC Wales and twice appearing – with considerable success – on the topical panel show Have I Got News For You within a year of the defeat.

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.

He would also slip in spoof commercials and sponsor's announcements for " Dobbiroids ", the wonder horse rejuvenator, or " Dobbimist " horse deodorant ( a cure for UFO: under-fetlock odour ), or " Dobbitex " horse cummerbunds-he would claim that he'd been " got at ": paid money to plug the product, because he claimed to be only paid a pittance as a senior BBC announcer, " I want things, I need things, things the other radio announcers have got!

On 11 September 2008, BBC Radio Four's Document programme claimed to have unearthed a secret plan – codenamed Doomsday – which proposed to cut all of the United Kingdom's constitutional ties with Northern Ireland and transform the province into an independent dominion.

He claimed the Asians had " discovered a loophole " and he told a BBC interviewer: " Public opinion in this country was extremely agitated, and the consideration that was in my mind was how we could preserve a proper sense of order in this country and, at the same time, do justice to these people – I had to balance both considerations ".

In a public meeting held at the Ram Lila grounds in Delhi, a few days after the ceasefire, he complained against a BBC report which claimed that Shastri's identity as a Hindu meant that he was ready for a war with Pakistan.

Telewest had an agreement with both ITV and the BBC and claimed to be the only provider in the UK to offer all the 2006 World Cup matches in HD.

Roger has been asked to present the Antiques Roadshow by the BBC, but arrives late as he claimed that there is some sort of " fucking jumble sale " outside but Tom tells him that its part of the programme.

One such site, Anti-CNN, claimed that news channels such as CNN and BBC only reported selectively, and only provided a one-sided argument regarding the 2008 Tibetan unrest.

In an interview for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Zakayev claimed to rebuff the Chechen president's reported offer and said that Kadyrov was only following the Kremlin's orders ; he also reinstates this stance two days later in the interview for the BBC Russian Service.

In a 1977 interview for BBC Wales, Vicious claimed to have invented the Pogo as a means to knock them over at the 100 Club.

The BBC has expressed interest in a fourth series, though the Radio Times has claimed that there is little chance of this.

In a 2009 interview with the BBC, Cale claimed that " the strongest drug " he now takes is coffee.

On 13 October 2009, he claimed on the BBC Today programme that the investigation by Sir Thomas Legg into the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal was marked by " retrospectivity ", as Sir Thomas had changed the rules on expenses after MPs ' claims had been submitted.

At the time of their first broadcast, they attracted some controversy: in The Sunday Times ( 15 April 1990 ) Paul Donovan opined that Lewis-Smith's hoaxes were " repugnant " and claimed that Lewis-Smith's company broke a " written undertaking that permission to broadcast would be obtained from all the people who had received the hoax calls " and that subsequently the BBC made illegal broadcasts in breach of their producers ' guidelines.

In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 claimed that Cilla Black's version of " Anyone Who Had a Heart " was the UK's biggest selling single by a female artist in the 1960s.

Although it was mentioned in a BBC news story at the time, no action was taken because the BBC claimed that the facts had not been brought to their attention.

The BBC comedy sitcom Open All Hours is claimed to be based on a shop in Norfolk Road near to where Ronnie Barker lived, although the series was not written by Barker, and had finished airing before he moved to the town.

In January 2007, the BBC Radio Four programme Document, followed by the Daily Mail, claimed to have uncovered the woman's identity.

Presenter Jimmy Savile claimed the BBC were lukewarm about the programme's prospects, stating that: " The BBC had a studio in Manchester Dickenson Road which was a disused church and, anything they didn't want to do in London, they slung up into this old church.

The CUTV manifesto claimed that the BBC under Greene spread " the propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt ... promiscuity, infidelity and drinking ".