bbc

BBC stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the national media company for the United Kingdom.

The BBC has been in existence since 1922 when a group of companies decided to band together to launch their first radio station, known as 2LO, from Marconi, England. From those tiny beginnings, the BBC has used the decades since to grow into the largest broadcasting corporation in the entire world, offering a dedicated TV news channel, online information portals, original programming, and world broadcasting services to dozens of countries, reaching hundreds of millions of viewers and listeners.

The British Broadcasting Corporation also provides subscription and non-subscription Interactive Digital TV services, allowing users to find relevant news, sports, and information going on at that moment in time.

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  The ad features a cigarette that grows a tumor while it's smoked, to demonstrate what happens inside a smoker's body over time.
  by dopodomani / on Dec 29, 2012
• in Entertainment
  Dark and Cruel, The Crimson Petal and the White Is Sensational British Costume Drama
  The Crimson Petal and the White, now on DVD, is based on the internationally best-selling novel by Michel Faber. It is a gorgeous production.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 8, 2012
• in Technology
  BBC to Launch a Music Product Equivalent of the iPlayer
  Rumours surface that the BBC is to launch a musical equivalent of its popular iPlayer service
  by cmimanagers / on Oct 3, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bbc”

 

• Cambodia factory accident injures 23

  
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  A collapsing structure injured 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. At least 23 workers were injured at a Cambodian factory that produced garments for a top Western brand on Monday, ...
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• The Unexplained Liberal Lie …

  
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  BBC: Unexplained ‘standstill’ in ‘global warming’ — since 1998! Well imagine that, real data does not have unexplained in it’s context. It only explains the lies. And the lie is man caused global warming is a lie, the data has spoken. We they right in the 70s when they said the next ice age is coming? ...
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• BBC: Unexplained ‘standstill’ in ‘global warming’ — since 1998!

  
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  Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained “standstill” in the heating of the Earth’s atmosphere. Writing in Nature Geoscience , the researchers say this will reduce predicted warming in the ...
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• It’s Official: Doctor Who Renewed For Eighth Season

  
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  As the seventh season of Doctor Who comes to an end, the BBC has officially announced the sci-fi series will return for an eighth season.
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• No future for white South Africans?

  
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  Do white people have a future in South Africa? According John Simpson, the world affairs editor of BBC News: Yes, there is a future for the prosperous white middle class and the upper-class whites (who remain shaded from poverty by their apartheid booty). This is not the case for the poor whites and white farmers....
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• The Name of the Doctor – Thoughts on the Doctor Who finale

  
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  Saturday night gave us the finale of series 7 (Steven Moffat’s 3rd season) of Doctor Who.  It promised us the answer to the “Impossible Girl” Clara Oswald and the big cliff hanger to lead us into the 50th year anniversary special.  Prior to it being aired I’d been following news on this with some enthusiasm ...
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• BlackBerry Q10: Built For Business

  
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  The BlackBerry Q10 is the new flagship QWERTY smartphone from the Canadian manufacturer that combines a physical keyboard with the new BlackBerry 10 operating system. Despite well publicised issues over the last few years, BlackBerry has continued to work hard in its attempts to pull itself back into the upper ranks ...
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• Gilles Peterson Guest Valerie June - Worldwide - 2013.05.18...

  
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  Gilles Peterson Guest Valerie June - Worldwide - 2013.05.18 Percy Mayfield - Hit The Road Jack [Percy] Valerie June - Working Woman Blues [Sunday Best] Gossamer - Didn’t Mean To [The Melt] Erykah Badu - Turn Me Away (Get Munny) [Motown] Emmavie - Seamless Fatima - Technology [Eglo] Moonchild - Ocean Deep ...
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• BBC Renews Doctor Who for Season 8

  
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  Doctor Who fans have reason to celebrate; BBC has renewed the popular series for an eighth season. BBC also announced Steven Moffat will be back as the lead writer and executive producer when the season airs in 2014. The announcement comes on the heels of season seven’s finale.   And while BBC did say the [...]
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• Pupils ‘need early porn warnings’

  
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  Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, head teachers say. Follow this link: Pupils ‘need early porn warnings’
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• Briton facing child death charges

  
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  A 48-year-old British man living in France is expected to be formally charged later with killing his two children, aged five and 10. Go here to see the original: Briton facing child death charges
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• UK astro Peake given station date

  
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  UK astronaut Tim Peake is to fly to the International Space Station, launching on a Soyuz rocket in November or December 2015. See the rest here: UK astro Peake given station date
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• Everest summiteers set slew of records on sunny Sunday

  
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    KATHMANDU: With barely a few days remaining for the climbing season to come to an end, mountaineers made full use of a clear weather window today to set several new records by summiting the world’s highest peak. David Liano Gonzalez, 33, set a new world record by scaling Mt Everest twice in one climbing […]
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• Handsome Professor Brian Cox abducted by aliens for breeding

  
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  I can see their reasons MANCHESTER, ENGLAND (The Daily Strawberry) – Humanity’s first confirmed contact with aliens from space took the world by surprise and shock today as Professor Brian Cox, the particle physicist and pretty boy of television popular science shows, was abducted by a UFO to be used in breeding ...
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• BBC Woman’s Hour: Civil partnerships are a stopgap

  
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  Earlier today I appeared on BBC Radio 4 show Woman’s Hour . I am always delighted to receive an invitation to appear on this iconic show. Women have been debating and discussing the finer points of their lives on this radio institution since 1946! This morning’s topic was civil partnerships and whether they ...
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• The BBC ignoring one source of opposition to gay marriage

  
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  The BBC report here that there is opposition to gay marriage from Several Cabinet ministers & 34 current and former local (Conservative) party chairmen. This report details the debate in the Church of Scotland and appears as a headline article on the BBC news website. Meanwhile this BBC page tells about ...
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• Life Size TARDIS For Sale On Amazon

  
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  Well as the cool BBC science fiction series Doctor Who ends with a bombshell, those fans who are missing it already can enjoy a full size TARDIS of their very own. Naturally, this one is not likely to be bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside, but you never know and it [...]
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• BBC Trust proposes Online and Red Button merger

  
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  There is a problem with the extended feed. Please contact us. The BBC Trust is to launch a consultation that could lead to the merger of BBC Online and BBC Red Button into a single service. Read the story »
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• 4 die during T.B. Joshua church stampede in Ghana

  
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  This man has many Africans under his spell ... Ghana stampede kills four at at TB Joshuas church  Police say they were overwhelmed by the large crowd when a stampede killed four people at a church in Ghanas capital, Accra, on Sunday.  Thousands of people flocked to the evangelical church for "holy ...
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• BBCSSO/Pintscher – review

  
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  City Halls, Glasgow A hundred years ago it took the orchestra of the Ballets Russes months of rehearsals to find their way around The Rite of Spring, and even then nobody at the legendarily riotous premiere could hear much of what they played. Stravinskys radical masterpiece has since become standard rep, trotted ...
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