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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year’s Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,900 are in public-sector broadcasting. Since its formation in 1922, the BBC has played a prominent role in British life and culture.[14] It is colloquially known as the Beeb or Auntie.
The famous British TV cook and cookery book writer Nigella Lawson returns for a very special Christmas treat when she travels to Amsterdam to enjoy the festive season in the Venice of the North. With family ties to Amsterdam that go back generations, Nigella has fond… Read More
Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history. It is produced by the production company Wall to Wall. The program has regularly attracted an audience… Read More
Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall. The programme has regularly attracted an audience… Read More
Who Do You Think You Are? is a British genealogy documentary series that has aired on the BBC since 2004, in which celebrity participants trace their family history. It is created by the production company Wall to Wall. The celebrity of this episode is Matt… Read More
The British production company Wall to Wall produces ‘Fining My Family: Holocaust’, a two-part series for BBC 1 which will follow the British families of those who experienced the Holocaust re-trace their parents and grandparents’ steps. Watford Grammar schoolgirl Maggie Fleet, 14, accompanied her “opa”,… Read More
‘Anne Frank is one of the most famous authors and diarists the world has ever seen.’ For the children’s news programme Newsround the BBC Children’s department is producing a documentary that ‘tells the story of a little girl who without knowing changed the world’. The… Read More
The children’s BBC program All Over The Place travels through Europe and also visits the Netherlands. Presenters Ed and Iain visit several iconic Dutch locations like the windmills on the Zaanse Schans, the cheese market in Alkmaar, the witches weigh house in Oudewater, the cat… Read More
The famous BBC car program Top Gear is thinking about filming in Amsterdam. The idea is to sail a Ford Transit van that is reconstructed as a hovercraft through the Amsterdam canals. To see if the plan is feasible research needs to be done, and… Read More
Two Blokes, Two Bikes and well over two thousand miles – the Hairy Bikers are baking their way around Europe. From Baguettes to Black Forest Gateaux, Croissants to Ciabatta, the boys are on a road trip to find the very best of baking in continental… Read More
After arriving on Amsterdam Airport Schiphol it turns out the airliner lost the tripod of a BBC Panorama crew that has an interview at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The BBC needs a replacement tripod within an hour, the interview at the… Read More
The BBC documentary series History of the World covers the story of the tulip trade in Amsterdam, on the first stock market of the world. Also the famous Tulip Mania is covered in the documentary. Tulip mania was a period during the Dutch Golden Age… Read More
The World’s Strictest Parents (or World’s Strictest Parents) is an international television franchise reality series developed by the British production company Twenty Twenty and originally broadcasted in the United Kingdom by BBC Three. Unruly British teenagers are sent to live with strict families in an… Read More