Sir Anthony Robinson is an English actor, author, broadcaster, comedian, presenter and political activist. He played Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and has presented several historical documentaries including the Channel 4 programmes Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. He has also written 16 children's books.
Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is a long-running BBC early-morning news and current-affairs radio programme on Radio 4. Broadcast on Monday to Friday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am and on Saturday from 7:00 am to 9:00 am, it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. In-depth political interviews and reports are interspersed with regular news bulletins, as well as Thought for the Day. It has been voted the most influential news programme in Britain in setting the political agenda, with an average weekly listening audience around 7 million.
Blue Peter is a British children's television magazine programme created by John Hunter Blair. It is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It was broadcast primarily from BBC Television Centre in London until September 2011, when the programme moved to dock10 studios at MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester. It is currently shown live on the CBBC television channel on Fridays at 5pm.
Alan Fred Titchmarsh,, HonFSE is an English gardener, broadcaster, TV presenter, poet, and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a gardening journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes. He has developed a diverse writing and broadcasting career.
CBeebies is a free-to-air children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC and within the international operations division of the BBC Studios company. Its programming is targeted at young children aged 6 years and younger, with sister channel CBBC aimed at viewers aged over 7 years. It broadcasts every day from 6:00 am to 6:58 pm, timesharing with BBC Four. CBeebies also manages an international network supported by subscription services, and its programs are also available in the UK via Freesat, Sky, Virgin Media, Freeview and BBC iPlayer. An African version of CBeebies launched in 2007 on Zuku TV, DStv, Azam TV, StarSat, GOtv and StarTimes. CBeebies launched in Middle East and North Africa on beIN. An Asian version of CBeebies launched in 2017 on Tata Sky, beIN & BBC Player. An Australian version of CBeebies launched in 2008 on Foxtel & Fetch TV
Jeremy Guy Vine is an English presenter, broadcaster and journalist. He is best known as the host of his BBC Radio 2 lunchtime programme which presents news, views, interviews with live guests and popular music, taking over from long time host Sir Jimmy Young in 2003.
David Lewis Jacobs, CBE was a British broadcaster perhaps best known as presenter of the BBC Television 1960s peak-time show Juke Box Jury, and as chairman of the long-running BBC Radio 4 topical forum Any Questions? Earlier radio work included small acting parts: over the years he played himself or presenter characters in film, television and radio productions. Jacobs finally stepped down as a BBC Radio 2 presenter shortly before his death in August 2013, his career having spanned more than 65 years.
BBC News at Ten — formerly known as the BBC Ten O'Clock News or the Ten O'Clock News — is the flagship evening news programme for British television channel BBC One and the BBC News channel. The weekday presenters consist of; Huw Edwards, Sophie Raworth, and Clive Myrie. The weekend edition of the programme is presented by either Mishal Husain or Clive Myrie. The programme was controversially moved from 9:00pm on 16 October 2000. The main presenter simultaneously holds the lead presenter role for major events, election night and breaking news for BBC News.
Gardeners' World is a long-running BBC Television programme about gardening, first broadcast on 5 January 1968 and still running as of 2021. Its first series was presented by Ken Burras and came from Oxford Botanical Gardens. The magazine BBC Gardeners' World is a tie-in to the programme. Up until 2020 most of its episodes have been 30 minutes in duration however this changed in spring 2020 when the format was extended to an hour. All episodes in the 2021 series follow this 60 minute format. Gardeners’ World currently airs between mid-March and late October on BBC Two every Friday.
The World at One, or WATO ("what-oh") for short, is BBC Radio 4's long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, produced by BBC News, which is currently broadcast from 13:00 to 13:45 from Monday to Friday. The programme describes itself as "Britain's leading political programme. With a reputation for rigorous and original investigation, it is required listening in Westminster".
The BBC News at Six is the evening news programme bulletin from the BBC. Produced by BBC News, the programme is broadcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel on weekdays at 6:00pm. For a long period the News at Six was the most watched news programme in the UK but since 2006 it has been overtaken by the BBC News at Ten. On average it is watched by four million viewers.
The BBC News at One is the afternoon/lunchtime news bulletin from the BBC. Produced by BBC News, the programme is broadcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel from Monday to Sunday at 1:00pm for 30 minutes, although it can be broadcast on the weekend. The programme is currently presented by Ben Brown, Jane Hill, Victoria Derbyshire, and Reeta Chakrabarti.
Montagu Denis Wyatt Don is a British horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer who is best known as being lead presenter of the BBC gardening television series Gardeners' World since 2003.
Odunayo Andrew Akinwolere, previously known as Andy Akinwolere, is a British television presenter.
Beechgrove is a television programme broadcast since 1978 on BBC Scotland. Over the years it has been broadcast on BBC Scotland, BBC One Scotland, BBC Two Scotland and Britbox.
24 Hours or Twenty-Four Hours was a long-running, late evening, daily news magazine programme that aired on BBC1. It focused on analysis and criticism of current affairs and featured in-depth short documentary films that set the style for current affairs magazine programmes. 24 Hours launched on 4 October 1965 and focused on investigative journalism. The programme's main presenter was Cliff Michelmore.
Toby Neale Buckland is an English gardener, TV presenter and author, best known for being the main presenter from 2008-10 of BBC's long running flagship gardening programme Gardeners' World.
Anne Lucinda Hartley Rice, known professionally as Anneka Rice, is a television presenter, broadcaster, journalist and painter.
Top Gear is a British motoring magazine and factual television programme, designed as a relaunched version of the original 1977 show of the same name by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman for the BBC, and premiered on 20 October 2002. The programme focuses on the examination and reviewing of motor vehicles, primarily cars, though this was expanded upon after the broadcast of its earlier series to incorporate films featuring motoring-based challenges, special races, timed laps of notable cars, and celebrity timed laps on a course specially-designed for the relaunched programme. The programme drew acclaim for its visual and presentation style since its launch, which focused on being entertaining to viewers, as well as criticism over the controversial nature of its content. The programme was aired on BBC Two until it was moved to BBC One for its twenty-ninth series in 2020.
Gerald "Gerry" Daly is an Irish Horticulturist, garden designer and media personality and editor of The Irish Garden magazine. He has featured, over a period of nearly 40 years, on multiple radio and television programmes on RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland channels, and has contributed, as he still does, regular columns for Irish newspapers and magazines, over more than 30 years, including the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and the Farmers Journal.
