A reader's letter didn't seem to have a sense check done on it before being read on air.

Michael Gambon's interview on top gear when he discusses how much he hates interviews and the stories he likes to make up.

posted by lunkwill 1 decade 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,968 views

English radio host makes repeated prank calls to Scottish pizza takeaway. Hilarious.

posted by lunkwill 1 decade 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 8,268 views

BBC Newsnight's resident pitbull Jeremy Paxman interviews neocon former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton and attempts to maul him in the process. Paxman, as always, a legend. Bolton, as always, red-faced.

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Life on Mars is an International Emmy-winning British television drama series, which was first shown on BBC One in January and February 2006. The second and final series ended on 10 April 2007. The... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 3,486 views

live on later with Jools Holland. 1st June 2007

posted by lunkwill 1 decade 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,109 views

When a cabbage accidentally rolls into the field, a game of football breaks out. The series has been aired on Danish television, is currently airing on Indian (Nick), German, Japanese, and Norwegian... continue reading

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The Mark Steel Lectures are a series of radio and television programmes. Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents persuasive, yet witty, arguments for the importance of a historical... continue reading

posted by lunkwill 1 decade 6 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 759 views

Live from BBC show "Rock Goes To College," October 1978.

posted by Fletch 1 decade 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,531 views

In this four-program series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time. He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our... continue reading

Part 1 of a three part 1997 BBC documentary on Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Great interviews as well including, Doug Moon, Frank Zappa, John French, Ry Cooder, and Matt Groening. Rock and Roll... continue reading

posted by silvercord 1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 4,065 views

John Cale performs his version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah at the LSO as part of his BBC4 Session.

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This is an excerpt from the 2005 BBC Documentary, Hiroshima, part of a longer series on WWII. It begins with a frightening CG recreation of the event interspersed with compelling interview footage and... continue reading

posted by yoghurt 1 decade 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 11,292 views

Ahhh, when computers were amazing and the music industry wasn't totally mashed up yet. Bringing you BBC Micro Live, part of the BBC's best project ever, i.e. making a computer and putting one in every... continue reading

posted by MINK 1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 1,139 views

From the 1981 BBC TV series.

posted by redthing 1 decade 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 5,402 views

The Doctor Who theme music was created in 1963, composed by Ron Grainer and "realised" with electronics by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The theme was one of the first electronic music... continue reading

posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 5,488 views • 2:40