Article: Doomed petition ; Jane Beare's letter ("Give animals a turn", November 27) reminded me that years ago a petition to the BBC sought an "Animals in Need" programme. I collected signatures and one lady who signed said "you'll be lucky, the BBC won't want to know". She was right - it didn't.

Article: [ GENERAL ELECTION 2001;TELEVISION: THE BBC won the ...
Evening Standard - London;  June 8, 2001 ;     266 words ...THE BBC won the TV election coverage battle last night with six million viewers tuning in. More than half of television viewers - 53 per cent ...

Article: BestEnders; BBC won! Readers push the vote out for ...
The Mirror (London, England);  October 31, 1996 ;     430 words ...EastEnders was voted Britain's favourite soap by Daily Mirror readers yesterday. Thousands took part in our nationwide phone poll and confirmed the BBC1 drama as No 1. Sixty per cent backed the Albert Square soap while 40 per cent supported the Street. The Mirror held the poll after revealing that

Article: The BBC won't let us Doone
Evening News - Scotland;  December 2, 2000 ;     429 words ...A bevvy of Brit stars are packed into the BBC's dashing and dramatic Christmas version of the classic Lorna Doone. But, for those few who are still sharp-eyed after the turkey and mince pies, there will be a couple of surprises. Joining the likes of Martin Jarvis, Martin Clunes, Aiden Gillen, Peter

Article: BBC won't help our bid.(News)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  April 22, 2003 ;     277 words ...Radio Five recently did a news piece on the dubious honour of Gateshead being the UK's capital for Karaoke and ales. The programme was absolutely atrocious and did nothing for the Newcastle/Gateshead city of culture bid, and propagated the image of a beer-gutted Geordie with very little grey

Article: BBC WON; Wallace & Gromit boost Beeb's festive ...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  December 27, 2008 ;     639 words ...Byline: By Rick Fulton WALLACE and Gromit led the BBC to a near clean sweep of the Christmas Day TV ratings, figures showed yesterday. A Matter Of Loaf And Death, the latest outing for Nick Park's popular characters, attracted a peak audience of 14.3million. It was almost two million ahead of the

Article: The BBC won't let the sunshine in
The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 15, 2007 ;     434 words ...In the wake of the BBC's 15-hour marathon promoting Al Gore's propaganda fest for the "consensus" view of global warming (interspersed with rock music), a concerted effort was made last week to discredit the rival thesis which has recently been gaining widespread support: that the key to warming

Article: BBC won't face court over Top Gear stunt
Evening Standard - London;  January 19, 2007 ;     484 words ...RICHARD HAMMOND and the BBC are to be cleared of any wrongdoing over the spectacular crash in which the TV presenter almost died. An inquiry by the Health and Safety Executive will rule out driver error as well as exonerating the makers of the Top Gear motoring programme. The corporation had faced