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After completing post-graduate training in broadcast journalism, Pearson worked for the BBC in domestic radio. [1] Since the 1980s, he worked as a frontline news presenter with the BBC World Service. Since 2014, Pearson has also presented The History Hour , a weekly omnibus edition of the BBC World Service's daily history series Witness and ...
The Hour is a British television drama series broadcast on BBC. The series was centred on a fictional current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the Hungarian Revolution and Suez Crisis .
Occasionally the programme can run for three hours during major breaking stories such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Each edition lasts one hour. It consists of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, international interviews and in-depth reports of world news. The BBC World Service considers it one of their most important programmes.
Zero Hour is a documentary-style television series. It aired on History Television in Canada, on the BBC in the United Kingdom, and on the History Channel in the United States. Zero Hour has also aired on Channel Seven in Australia (third series aired on Network Ten from 1 May 2010 and now plays on 7mate ); on Discovery Channel in Africa, Asia ...
The Sunday Hour was a long-standing show broadcast on the BBC Light Programme and then BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom, broadcast for 78 years between 14 July 1940 and 28 January 2018. [ 1 ] For most of its life it occupied a Sunday evening slot as Sunday Half Hour , latterly between 8:30 pm and 9:00 pm but in 2013 it moved to a Sunday ...
The gaps created were filled by Up to the Hour, which consisted of lighter items such as music, sport and trailers for upcoming programmes. It also incorporated the existing religious slot, Thought for the Day. The new format was unpopular with BBC staff, including Peter Donaldson who on at least one occasion openly ridiculed the programme on ...
These cutbacks would remain until 1978, however at Christmas 1975, 1976 and 1977 BBC Radio 2 hours were extended over the festive season. 6 January – Due to these cutbacks, BBC1 stops broadcasting regular programmes on weekday afternoons between 2 pm and 4 pm other than schools programmes and sport. This meant ITV was often the only channel ...
Children's Hour was broadcast from 1922 to 1964, originally from the BBC's Birmingham station 5IT, [1] soon joined by other regional stations, then in the BBC Regional Programme, before transferring to its final home, the new BBC Home Service, at the outbreak of the second World War. Parts of the programme were also rebroadcast by the BBC World ...