Michael Hurll News Today

Grand Final: 1974 (Season 1974): The 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest broadcast from The Dome in Brighton. Eurovision Song Contest 1974 airs on BBC Four HD at 8:10 PM, Sunday 7 April. The 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest broadcast from The Dome in Brighton

Abba in Switzerland: The pop group's first European TV special. Abba in Switzerland airs on BBC Two HD at 11:35 PM, Saturday 6 April. The pop group's first European TV special

26/02/1981 (Season 1981): Music from 1981 by Status Quo, Kim Wilde, Madness and Kiki Dee. Top of the Pops airs on BBC Four HD at 2:05 AM, Saturday 24 February. Music from 1981 by Status Quo, Kim Wilde, Madness and Kiki Dee

The musician on his controversial Vietnam War song, 19, beating Duran Duran’s Bond theme, and his role in The X Factor creator’s success

Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker in 2005 Credit: BBC Ronnie Corbett said “there was never a cross word” with Ronnie Barker, during four decades of what he called a close and “very British friendship”. Barker described their partnership as “even more amicable than a marriage – wedlock without the bad patches”. During the heyday of The Two Ronnies, which was first transmitted on April 10 1971, more than 20 million viewers regularly tuned in every Saturday night; it was more nationa...