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Tonight is a British current affairs television programme, presented by Cliff Michelmore, that was broadcast on BBC live on weekday evenings from 18 February 1957 to 18 June 1965. The producers were the future Controller of BBC1 Donald Baverstock and the future Director-General of the BBC Alasdair Milne. The audience was typically seven million ...
BBC Radio 1: Youth-orientated music, pop music, dance and rock. Yes No Yes Yes BBC Radio 1Xtra: Black music, hip hop, R&B and dancehall. No BBC Radio 1 Dance: Classic, current and future electronic dance music, with mixes and archives. No BBC Radio 2: Adult-orientated music, country, jazz, soul and funk. Yes Yes BBC Radio 3
7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup. [2] [3] The BBC also shows full coverage of the 1979 World Cup. [4] 11 June – A pilot of the sitcom The Melting Pot, written by and starring Spike Milligan (in brownface) with Neil Shand, is broadcast on BBC2. The following year, a full series of six ...
BBC World News (1999–2019) BBC World News America (1999–2019) Beast (2000–07) Bedlam (2012–16) Being Human (2009–13) Bellamy's People (2010–14) Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie (2001–09; 2013) The Ben Elton Show (1998–99; 2010–14) The Benny Hill Show (1998–2006) Bergerac (1998–2008) The Best of Tommy Cooper (1998–2005) Big ...
The hugely popular Hanna-Barbera characters are shown twice weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and go on to be screened continually on the BBC throughout many decades. 8 April – The United Kingdom wins the 12th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. The winning song is "Puppet on a String" performed (barefoot) by Sandie Shaw. It is ...
Tonight is a BBC television current affairs programme that was shown on weekday nights from 1 September 1975 until 5 July 1979 on BBC1. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was initially presented by Sue Lawley , Denis Tuohy and Donald MacCormick and reporters included John Pitman , Richard Kershaw , David Lomax , David Jessel and Michael Delahaye.
24 January–3 February – The BBC broadcasts the 1990 Commonwealth Games. BBC1 stays on the air all night to provide live coverage. BBC1 stays on the air all night to provide live coverage. This is the first time that BBC1 has provided full live coverage of an overseas Commonwealth Games with around 12 hours of live action broadcast each day.
After Dark featured a different topic each week, with guests selected to provoke lively discussion. Subject matter included "the treatment of children, of the mentally ill, of prisoners, and about class, cash and racial and sexual difference", as well as "matters of exceptional sensitivity to the then Thatcher government, such as state secrecy or the Troubles in Northern Ireland"; "places ...