BBC Television is a service provided by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Under the terms of a royal charter, the corporation has provided public television services in the United Kingdom since 1927. It began producing television programs from its own studios in 1932, but its regular television broadcast service began on November 2, 1936. But […]
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Rock and Roll was known as the devil’s music when it first was popularized in the 1950s. Older individuals who believed so shunned the younger generation who created and listened to it. Others went as far as taking action to stop its spread. Mary Whitehouse was one of them, but her efforts had a reverse
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Crimewatch was a British TV show produced by the BBC. The show reconstructs major unsolved crimes to provide information to the public which may eventually help in solving the cases. But what happened to the show’s host? Host of BBC’s unsolved crimes show “Crimewatch,” Jill Dando, was murdered in 1999. The show reconstructed her murder
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One man, one vote in Indian forest India has 828,804 polling stations in the current general election, but one of them is unique. It has just one voter. The BBC’s Soutik Biswas travels into the forest to meet him. In a desolate, seemingly endless, lion-infested forest in India, a single man waits to exercise his
Japanese Police Finally Arrest 74-Year Old Ninja Thief A rash of of thievery in Osaka has come to an end as Japanese police have finally apprehended a prolific criminal, one who disguised himself as a ninja to carry out his mischief. According to Sankei Shinbun, a 74-year-old man who came to be known as the
