The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In a special chart for National Album Day, produced by the Official Charts Company, the station will reveal the biggest all-time debut albums to be released in the UK (Saturday 15th October).

How, for instance, can a biog of Top Of The Pops only include positive stories and quotations of the 1970s? If John Reith could see our BBC, would he RuPaul the day he first dreamt of placing a Love Box in your Living Rooms.The book is published for the BBC by Dorling Kindersley, well-known for their visually compelling publications. Paddy also delves into the history of BMW’s legendary M-cars, Chris gets to grips with Ford’s new WRC racer, and the team investigate the future of fuel. Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War. The former marked the beginning of one of the first massive TV brands, and the latter highlighted the importance of the BBC in growing citizenship amongst the nation’s children.

He is Head of BBC History, telling the story of the Corporation at the heart of national life, as well as on the global stage. This time they take inspiration from documentary maker Adam Curtis to celebrate the BBC’s 100 years with The Love Box in Your Living Room. In short, the perfect coffee-table books, especially at it's a reasonably compact size (rought 9x7in, 23x18cm). Known as a journalist, critic and presenter of the BBC's The Late Show, Harron, who had no formal training as a director, regards the BBC fondly as her “film school” giving her many of the skills she went on to use in her acclaimed feature films, such as American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page. How The BBC Began is a Crux Productions and The Garden Productions film for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.They sit down with Talking Movies host Tom Brook to explain how their early years working as BBC staff and working on BBC projects gave them invaluable storytelling skills and experience for their later very successful film and documentary filmmaking careers. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. This is accompanied by a TX of a Hancock Half Hour – once missing – and now remastered and broadcast for the first time since 1955. Along the way she meets a galaxy of television legends, including her own first TV heroine, Baroness Floella Benjamin; Johnny Ball; Phillip Schofield; Tracy Beaker actress Dani Harmer; Grange Hill creator Sir Phil Redmond; and her fellow former Blue Peter presenters Valerie Singleton and Janet Ellis.

In a rapidly changing world, it is one of the few universal reference points for any given generation. The programme will track content from the very first radio broadcast of Children’s Hour in 1922, via the iconic Magic Roundabout, right through to Saturday morning megahits such as Going Live. Battle of the Brows: Philip Hensher explores how the early 'culture wars' and public debates about British cultural life were played out at the BBC and beyond from the 1920s onwards. The BBC’s online catalogue of audiovisual material is for internal use, unseen by all but a select few academics fortunate enough to marvel at its millions of items.Created with exclusive access to the BBC’s archives, Broadcasting Britain is a unique celebration of British culture, with authoritative text by an acknowledged expert in the field.

Plaques The BBC Heritage Trail brings together newly commissioned blue plaques and existing plaque schemes to celebrate the buildings used for broadcasting over the decades. the first Prom broadcast in 1927, wartime updates, coverage of the moon landing, comedy greats, the 2012 Olympics ?In this feature-length special to mark her last adventure, Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor must fight for her very existence, against her deadliest enemies: the Daleks, the Cybermen and her arch-nemesis, the Master. In recognition of the BBC’s centenary year and 100 years of delivering unmissable live music to audiences, this season BBC Radio 3 brings a host of extraordinary music from across the UK as well as around the world.