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BBC Archive logo. The BBC Archives are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, BBC products (including toys, games, merchandise, books, publications, and programme releases on VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, DVD, vinyl, audio cassette, audio ...
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
26 December – Debut of That Was the Week We Watched on BBC Two, narrated by actor Simon Pegg and airing six nights a week (except on New Year's Eve) looks back on past television shows for the Radio Times and TVTimes schedules from the years 1967, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1982 and 1986. The series airs until New Year's Day 2004.
BBC Four Collections is a selected variation of factual television episodes and series available on British video-on-demand service BBC iPlayer.The collections themselves primarily involve "experts" like Richard Osman, [1] Janet Street-Porter [2] and David Attenborough [3] selecting various programmes from the BBC Archive to be made available on the iPlayer service.
10 March – The Frost Report, which launches the television careers of John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett and other writers and performers, is first broadcast on BBC One 11 March – Chi-Chi , London Zoo 's giant panda , is flown to the Soviet Union for a union with An-An of Moscow Zoo .
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...
15 October – During a weather forecast, BBC meteorologist Michael Fish reports "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way; well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't, but having said that, actually, the weather will become very windy, but most of the strong winds ...
Whicker's World began airing as a standalone show on BBC One on 16 October 1965 with "Plumes For My Rich Aunt", a half-hour report looking at the excesses of that year's Paris Fashion Week. [23] It moved to BBC Two in January 1966 and continued to air irregularly—once or twice a month—until the final episode of its first BBC run ("Two Sides ...