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Wild Alaska Live: 2017: A live-broadcast series about the congregation of wildlife in Alaska for the bountiful summer season. Steve Backshall (presenter), Liz Bonnin (presenter), Matt Baker (presenter) Wild UK: 2017: A live-broadcast series exploring the wilderness of the UK and the wildlife that thrives there. This is a companion program to ...
In 2000, BBC Breakfast, a simulcast programme between BBC One and BBC News 24 was launched. Regional opt-outs on BBC News 24 carried UK Today across the UK. Main bulletins at 1.30 pm and 6.30 pm were originally broadcast from within the BBC News 24 studio (N8), and simulcast on that channel, although the set was later moved to the same studio ...
The UK's heavy manufacturing drove the industrial revolution. A map of the major UK cities gives a good picture of where this activity occurred, in particular Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield. Today there is no heavy manufacturing industry in which UK-based firms can be considered world leaders.
Landscapes of England: An Exploration with W.G. Hoskins is a BBC television documentary series broadcast on BBC Two in 1976 and 1978. Written and presented by Professor W.G. Hoskins, the series was a televisual accompaniment to his seminal text The Making of the English Landscape (1955), examining how human influence has greatly shaped the landscape of distinct regions in England.
England, formerly a kingdom and independent country, united with Scotland to form what would eventually become the UK (Wales was treated as part of England at that time). England is in a unique and controversial position of being a political entity within the UK and as of 2015 having no self-governance. England is represented by MPs in the ...
Titled as World News Today with George Alagiah (2006–2010) and World News Today with Zeinab Badawi (2007–2014). Newsday: One, News Channel & World News 13 June 2011 – present Victoria Derbyshire: Two & News Channel 7 April 2015 – 17 March 2020 BBC Newsroom Live: Two & News Channel 21 March 2016 – 2020 GMT: Two & World News 1 February ...
There are 35 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories. [2] The UNESCO list contains one designated site in both England and Scotland (the Frontiers of the Roman Empire) plus eighteen exclusively in England, six in Scotland, four in Wales, two in Northern Ireland, and one in each of the overseas territories of Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Pitcairn ...
Much of the landscape falls into types determined by the underlying geology. These landscapes are the limestone karst and lias of the north, the central clay vales and wetlands, the oolites of the east and south, and the Devonian sandstone of the west. [19] To the north-east of the Somerset Levels, the Mendips are moderately high limestone hills.