Valerie Singleton is an English television and radio presenter best known as a regular presenter of the popular children's series Blue Peter from 1962 to 1972. She also presented the BBC Radio 4 PM programme for ten years as well as a series of radio and television programmes on financial and business issues including BBC's The Money Programme from 1980 to 1988.
Desmond Michael Lynam, is an Irish-born British television and radio presenter. In a broadcasting career spanning more than forty years, he has hosted television coverage of many of the world's major sporting events, presenting Grandstand, Match of the Day, Wimbledon, the Grand National, Sportsnight, the World Cup and Olympic Games, as well as presenting non-sporting programmes such as Holiday, How Do They Do That? and Countdown.
BBC Reporting Scotland is the BBC's national television news programme for Scotland, broadcast on BBC One Scotland from the headquarters of BBC Scotland in Pacific Quay, Glasgow.
Simon Peter Richie Calder is a freelance English travel journalist and broadcaster. He works for various news and travel publications as well as being travel correspondent for The Independent.
The BBC News at Six is the BBC's evening news programme on British television channels BBC One and BBC News, broadcast weeknights at 6:00pm and produced by BBC News. It is normally broadcast for 30 minutes, except on bank holidays when it may be shorter and only shown on BBC One. For a long period, the BBC 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.
Newsbeat is the BBC's radio news programme broadcast on Radio 1, 1Xtra and Asian Network. Newsbeat is produced by BBC News but differs from the BBC's other news programmes in its remit to provide news tailored for young people.
Holiday is a British television programme, which aired mainly on BBC One, and sometimes on BBC Two. It is the longest running travel review series on UK television, showing every year from 1969 until its demise in 2007.
Whicker's World was a British television documentary series that ran from 1959 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker.
This is a list of British television related events from 1989.
Crimewatch is a British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was originally broadcast once a month in a primetime slot on BBC One, although in the final years before its relaunch in September 2016 it was usually broadcast roughly once every two months.
This is a list of events on British radio during 1999.
Singing Together was a BBC Radio schools series which ran from 25 September 1939 to 29 March 2001, with repeats until 25 June 2004. Its origins were in Community Singing which was considered necessary at the outbreak of the Second World War following the mass evacuation of children.
A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 4, a British national radio station which began broadcasting in September 1967.
A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Radio 3, a British national radio station which began broadcasting in September 1967.
This is a timeline of the history of breakfast television in the United Kingdom.
This is a timeline of the history of the broadcasting of children's programmes on BBC Television.
The Simon Mayo Breakfast Show was the weekday breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 between 23 May 1988 and 3 September 1993. The programme was broadcast on weekdays, apart from on bank holidays, and had three broadcast slots. Originally on air between 7 am and 9.30 am, it gained an extra 30 minutes on 3 April 1989 to coincide with an earlier start to Radio 1’s day. Finally, when Radio 1 began 24-hour transmissions on 1 May 1991, the programme was broadcast between 6 am and 9 am. The programme ended as part of the major shake-up of BBC Radio 1 schedule by Matthew Bannister, which saw Mayo move to the station’s mid-morning slot.
The World Today, styled also as The World Today with Maryam Moshiri is a news programme that premiered on both UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 21 February 2024. The programme is mainly hosted by Maryam Moshiri. The show, dedicated to international news is said to "bring the best of the BBC's global journalism to audiences in the UK and around the world.". As well as interviews with leading figures from the arts, culture and entertainment.
