He worked as a scriptwriter for Peter Sellers and then on 39 episodes of his own radio show Round the Bend in 30 Minutes, which has also been wiped from the BBC archive.

When Cook learned a few years later that the videotapes of the series were to be wiped, a common practice at the time, he offered to buy the recordings from the BBC but was refused because of copyright issues.

Indeed most of the 1960s BBC serials were largely wiped.

Most of the show's 26 episodes from series 1-3 that were videotaped in black and white and broadcast 1965-68 no longer exist ; they were wiped by the BBC during the late 1960s and early ' 70s.

Regrettably, many of the videotapes and film reels of these seminal TV shows were later erased by the BBC ( an affliction which wiped out large portions of other British television productions as well, such as Doctor Who ), although some of the soundtracks ( which were issued on record ) have survived.

Many of the early episodes in which Troughton appeared were wiped by the BBC ( a full list of Doctor Who episodes missing from the BBC Archives is available here ).

There is lost material in all genres – as late as 1993, a large number of videotaped children's programmes from the 1970s and 1980s were irretrievably wiped by Adam Lee of the BBC archives on the assumption that they were of " no use ", without consulting the BBC children's department itself.

Early episodes of the pop music-chart show Top of the Pops were wiped or never recorded and only broadcast " live ", the last edition that was wiped from the BBC archives dates from 8 September 1977.

The BBC was not alone in this practice – the commercial companies that formed its main rival ITV also wiped videotapes and destroyed telerecordings, leaving gaps in their archive holdings.

Some segments of TOTP which have been wiped by the BBC do survive in some form owing to having been included in other programmes, either by the BBC itself or by foreign broadcasters.

Information on series dates taken from the book Tony Hancock: Artiste ( 1978 ) by Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen ISBN 0-413-38680-5 ( subsequent reprints in 1983 and 1986 contain additional details ) Information on wiped radio episodes taken from the CD box sets ( BBC Worldwide, 2000 – 2003 ).

Confusion of this episode with the identically-named 1968 serial ' Invasion ', in BBC documentation, was long thought to have led to the 1974 episode being wiped in error.

As far as the BBC was concerned, the story had been wiped in its entirety ; researchers for the 1976 documentary Whose Doctor Who found that none of the episodes were listed as existing in the BBC library.

Asia Television used to air the British Science Fiction Programme Doctor Who and were responsible for returning one of their copies to the BBC, when BBC Enterprises wiped many Doctor Who serials in the 1970s.

The master recording was wiped, but co-writer Snoad kept a copy which he later returned to the BBC.

It was subsequently repeated again on BBC Radio 2, but an apparent mixup between different BBC departments resulted in most of the original masters being wiped.

Although the episode was wiped by the BBC and no copy is known to exist, three of Delia Derbyshire's sound sequences were published on a BBC record of sound effects Out of This World, renamed as " Heat Haze ", " Frozen Waste " and Icy Peak ".

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

The surviving reels were featured in the BBC documentary The Epic That Never Was ( 1965 ), revealing some of Laughton's most accomplished acting.

She has been called " the world's most famous sheep " by sources including BBC News and Scientific American.

" 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.

As Hurst collected the pass, BBC commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme immortalised his own contribution to the day with one of the most famous pieces of football commentary ever:

Marx is widely considered one of the most influential thinkers in history, who has had a significant influence on both world politics and intellectual thought, and in a 1999 BBC poll was voted the top " thinker of the millennium ".

" Brown also quoted William Shaw, a broadcaster who was presenting the Cult Fiction series on BBC Radio Five Live: " Most Moonies embrace a morality which would make them acceptable in the most genteel Anglican social circle.

The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.

This terminology may be muddled somewhat in other jurisdictions, for instance Europe, where terrestrial channels are commonly mapped from physical channels to common numerical positions ( i. e. BBC One does not broadcast on any particular " channel 1 " but is nonetheless mapped to the " 1 " input on most British television sets ).

Originally, the programme was part of a BBC children's television series titled Watch with Mother, with a different programme each weekday, most of them involving string puppets.

A major international television network is the British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC which is perhaps most well known for its news agency BBC News.

Rather than creating a single network with local stations owned and operated by a single company ( as is the case with the BBC ), each local area had a separate television station independently owned and operated, although most of these stations shared a number of programmes.

As with most BBC sitcoms Till Death Us Do Part was recorded before a live studio audience.

In the previous decade she had become one of the century ’ s most famous feminist writers with three more novels, and a series of essays including the moving late memoir “ Sketch of the Past ”, It was also in the 1930s that Desmond MacCarthy became perhaps the most widely read – and heard – literary critic with his columns in The Sunday Times and his broadcasts with the BBC.

Michael Ondaatje stated in an interview on BBC Radio 4 broadcast 9 August 2012, that most people think this comment is attributed to Kip, but it was in fact Caravaggio.

Others are case-insensitive ( i. e., not case-sensitive ), such as most BASICs ( an exception being BBC BASIC ), Fortran, SQL and Pascal.

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!

This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay ( CSO ; primarily by the BBC ), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen-chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors.

Currently, overnight viewers receive 25 minute editions of BBC News every hour, and on weekdays 0100-0200 receive Newsday, live from Singapore and from London 0200-0530 BBC World News.

From 13 June 2011, the weeknight editions of BBC News at 0100, 0200, 0300 and 0400 were replaced with Newsday.

Wilson also hosted two editions of the BBC chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning.

For the first three editions of the second series in 1963, the BBC attempted to limit the team by scheduling repeats of The Third Man television series after the programme, so that they could not overrun.

Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox are double CD editions with the second disc containing outtakes, BBC session recordings and newly remixed versions of two of that particular album's tracks.

Some editions of The One O ' Clock Show were produced by David Croft, who would go on to co-write many BBC situation comedies.

: An international, commercially-funded twenty-four hour news channel, not officially available to UK viewers but is shown on BBC News / BBC One / BBC Two between 1am-5. 30am and two editions 11: 30am-12: 00pm on BBC Two / 19: 00 -! 9: 30 BBC Four.

Matthew Bannister was the first stand-in presenter when Glover went on maternity leave, but on gaining his own new obituary strand on Radio 4, Last Word, most editions of BH in the spring / summer of 2006 were presented by Working Lunch and BBC Three presenter Paddy O ' Connell.

Recently Jones has presented editions of Escape to the Country and Cash in the Attic for BBC TV.

Salmon also found himself criticised in the media for rescheduling and cutting back on the annual number of editions of BBC One's flagship current affairs series Panorama, as well as the decision not to broadcast a public pageant held to celebrate the Queen Mother's 100th birthday.

Relatively few editions survive in the BBC archives, and they are rarely repeated.

He also appeared as a member of the Critics Panel on several editions of BBC 7's " Serious About Comedy " in 2006-7.

The changes were made following the BBC's loss of the rights to soap opera Neighbours, which had for many years been broadcast between the end of CBBC and the start of the 6pm news ; when the decision to move daytime editions of The Weakest Link from BBC Two to One to fill the gap, CBBC had to move to an earlier slot, as Weakest Link " is longer than Neighbours was.

There are four editions of the programme, including two 30-minute programmes: the first is produced for a UK audience and shown on BBC News, the second is produced for a global audience, aired on BBC World News, usually identical with a commercial break in the middle.

He went on to host a further ten editions before leaving to commence his last full time summer as the BBC cricket correspondent.

After the BBC News at Ten on weeknights, both the East and West of the region receive fully separate editions of Look East from Norwich and Cambridge respectively.

Many editions of the show were junked by the BBC in the early 1990s when they were assumed to be of no further use.

It has a long history of software versions in its native United Kingdom being available for the Sinclair, Acorn and BBC micro computers as well as a variety of audio and book editions over the years.