
The Best of The Beeb
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The best documentaries, entertainment and news from good ol' auntie .

A reader's letter didn't seem to have a sense check done on it before being read on air.
posted by theneb 1 decade 7 years 1 month ago • 327 viewsMichael 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

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

live on later with Jools Holland. 1st June 2007
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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
posted by gaffa
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
Live from BBC show "Rock Goes To College," October 1978.
posted by Fletch
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
posted by Cronyx 1 decade 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 6,449 viewsPart 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
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
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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
From the 1981 BBC TV series.
posted by redthing
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
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