" It is unknown when Alfred launched this programme, but it may have been during the 880s when Wessex was enjoying a respite from Viking attacks.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

The club engages the services of a head tennis professional to run a coaching programme for the town and was crowned Tennis Wales ' Club of the Year in 2010.

Some assistance was provided to Belarus within the framework of the TACIS programme and also through various aid programs and loans.

That was made possible by changes in party leadership, programme, reduction of its power base and other which permitted economic reorientation toward a market system.

During the Summer, the hour long programme News 24 Sunday was broadcast both on BBC One and the BBC News Channel at 09: 00, to replace The Andrew Marr Show, which is off air.

The programme was made up mostly of interviews focusing on current affairs, and included a full paper review, a weather summary, and a news update at 09: 00, 09: 30 and 10: 00.

The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid ( Mondays to Wednesdays ), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt ( Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends ).

With no effective long-range weapon the original Blue Steel served on after a crash programme of minor modifications to permit a low-level launch at, even though its usefulness in a hot war was likely limited.

The new programme of building was carried out in great haste: Columns, marbles, doors, and tiles were taken wholesale from the temples of the Empire and moved to the new city.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

A large house-building programme was carried out with the intention of providing millions of people with high-quality homes.

It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

Blue Jam was an ambient radio comedy programme created and directed by Chris Morris.

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, following its appearance on the 2005 television programme Seven Natural Wonders, Cheddar Gorge was named as the second greatest natural wonder in Britain, surpassed only by the Dan yr Ogof caves.

This discovery was made public in a BBC TV programme in 1999, reviving debate about Soviet links to CND.

" By 1967, critics were suggesting that the programme no longer reflected life in 1960s Britain, but reflected how life was in the 1950s.

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1970s.

Warren's programme was largely matriarchal, which some commentators put down to the female-dominant environment in which he grew up.

Daran Little, for many years the official programme archivist, claims that the first episode to be transmitted in colour was episode 930 shown on 24 November 1969.

Harry Kershaw was the script editor for Coronation Street when the programme began in 1960, working alongside Tony Warren.

The song is the only single from Teletubbies, making them a one-hit wonder in the United Kingdom, and mostly a remix of the theme song from the hit Television programme performed by the series characters written by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport.

" Boss of Me " became the band's second top-40 hit in the UK which they performed on long running UK television programme Top of the Pops, and in 2002, won the duo a Grammy Award.

Often cited as the moment of inception is his appearance on the UK TV programme Top of the Pops in March 1971 wearing glitter and satins, to perform what would be his second UK Top 10 hit ( and first UK Number 1 hit ), " Hot Love ".

During 2011 the bridge underwent a £ 200, 000 repair programme after being hit by a boat Crazy Love in August 2010.

This was to be the only high profile TV appearance by the Oakey / Marsh / Ware trio on British television, with the sole exception of BBC2's Mainstream programme in late 1979, where a performance in the studio, complete with slideshow etcetera, was broadcast of the tracks " The Path Of Least Resistance " and the current minor hit " Empire State Human ".

Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit " Torn ".

Although originally a classical pianist, Barry took a correspondence course ( with jazz composer Bill Russo ) and working as an arranger for the Jack Parnell and Ted Heath's Orchestra, he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven, with whom he had some hit records on the EMI Columbia label, including " Hit and Miss ", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's Juke Box Jury programme, a cover of the Ventures ' " Walk Don't Run ", and a cover of the theme for the United Artists Western The Magnificent Seven.

In February 1992 the legal process found in favour of Westcountry and while they could now finally sign the franchise agreement, their original programme plans were hit by the delay.

* Shaft ( rave ), a UK dance music act which had a 1991 hit with ' Roobarb and Custard ' sampling vintage children's television programme ' Roobarb '

* KOOK ( TV series ), a hit music programme on BBC Persian TV

For charity, in 2002 during the BBC's Children in Need programme, both Constantine and Woodall performed their own version of Madonna's hit single " Vogue " with a group of celebrity backing singers.

The programme frequently comments on other programmes, most often a spoof soap opera called The Bureau, set in a 24-hour bureau de change, incorporating clichéd soap opera-style plots, which apparently produces and airs 2, 000 episodes between the first and third segments of The Day Today and becomes a hit in Italy.

The programme was characterised by games such as Mallett's Mallet, a word association game where contestants were hit over the head by his famed mallet for getting answers wrong.

In the hurricane-force storms that hit England in October that year electrical power to TV-am's studios was lost and an emergency programme had to be transmitted from facilities at Thames Television's Euston Road centre, using reports from TV-am's own crews and those of ITN, TSW and TVS.

If a contestant hit a category which had already turned up on that programme, the host would say " The category's gone, so we can't ask the question " and carry on.

Early in his career, Frears made a programme featuring the band The Scaffold and is name-checked (" Mr Frears had sticky out ears ...") in their hit song " Lily the Pink ".

', read by actor Campbell Morrison ), the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers and critics.

Even though Jovanotti has never had a UK chart hit under his own name, he was briefly known in the United Kingdom as the presenter of the DEF II programme Gimme 5.

He also made the hit single " The Voyager ", which was used for the BBC One programme Holiday.

The broadcaster Chris Evans also ran a variation of the format in 2008 on his BBC Radio 2 ' Chris Evans Drivetime ' programme, where listeners were invited to text either ' hit ' or ' miss ', plus their comments, to the programme.

Also in 1961, comedian Jimmy Edwards promotes a tea-shop band ' The Burke Adams Tea-Time Three ', who have a record judged a hit on Juke Box Jury, in the programme The Face of Enthusiasm, part of his comedy series The Faces of Jim.

In 1989 she starred in the hit children's television programme Press Gang, where she played Julie Craig.

The programme became known for various features, including On This Day In History, soundtracked by a looped version of George Michael's " I Want Your Sex ", and the long-running cryptic game The Identik-Hit Quiz, where Mayo and his cohorts would ' act ' a short scene which cryptically led listeners to the title of a hit song.