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between the brake pedal and the braking system failing. now on bbc news, its time for click. this week we are live at the hay festival for 100 years of the bbc in 23 minutes. well look at the secrets behind the broadcasting technologies that changed the world. a radio legend talks about legendary radio. i used to set my watch by the pips, and my favourite pip is always the last one because its extended. and artificial intelligence goes bird spotting and in the quest for greener energy,...

football fan should be put in that situation, and it must not happen again�*. french president emmanuel macron says ticket holders should be reimbursed. now on bbc news, its time for click. this week we are live at the hay festival for 100 years of the bbc in 23 minutes. well look at the secrets behind the broadcasting technologies that changed the world. a radio legend talks about legendary radio. i used to set my watch by the pips, and my favourite pip is always the last one becaus...

and the highs in temperatures in western scotland. hello, this is bbc news with joanna gosling. the headlines... platinum jubilee celebrations enter their third day and its party time at the palace. its derby day at the races but the queen wont be there. her daughter, the princess royal, will represent the monarch instead. and the buntings still out up and down the country — we take a look at the street parties celebrating her majestys 70 years on the throne. in other news, travel di...

of england as we go through the night. elsewhere, a quieter night, a drier night and across the north—west of the uk we will see the best of the sunshine during tomorrow and especially a nice—looking day for parts of western scotland. clear some eastern coast. showers and thunderstorms in the south drifting north and will tend to to weaken, temperatures highest in western scotland, to 22 degrees. hello this is bbc news. the headlines... buckingham palace says the queen wont be atte...

The pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pendulum fitted with electrical contacts. so now you could have accurate greenwich mean time literally anywhere that you had a radio. the pips have become legendary, a symbol of bbc radio, and who better to tell us about them than another legend of bbc radio, tony blackburn. archive: welcome along - to the tony blackburn show this morning for this tuesday the ninth of december. my thanks, as always tojohn dunn for swinging us up until th...

So they could figure out where they were. the centre of all british nautical charts was the greenwich meridian, 0 degrees, and each vessel also kept a fancy clock on board that told them local time at the meridian and helped them to calculate their position really precisely. but over long journeys, how could the captains keep those clocks accurate to the second? well, to bring in the new year in 1923, the bbc ran an experiment to broadcast the midnight bongs of big ben on the radio. it was a bon...

Well, to bring in the new year in 1923, the bbc ran an experiment to broadcast the midnight bongs of big ben on the radio. big ben bongs it was a bonging success, and the following year it was a bonging success, and the following year the first fully accessible time signal, the greenwich time signal, started to be broadcast every hour — and it hasnt stopped since. the pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pendulum fitted with electrical contacts. so now you could have accurate...

The centre of all british nautical charts was the greenwich meridian, 0 degrees, and each vessel also kept a fancy clock on board that told them local time at the meridian and helped them to calculate their position really precisely. but over long journeys, how could the captains keep those clocks accurate to the second? well, to bring in the new year in 1923, the bbc ran an experiment to broadcast the midnight bongs of big ben on the radio. it was a bonging success and the following year the fi...

It was a bonging success and the following year the first fully accessible time signal, the greenwich time signal, started to be broadcast every hour and it hasnt stopped since. the pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pendulum fitted with electrical contacts. so now you could have accurate greenwich mean time literally anywhere that you had a radio. the pips have become legendary, a symbol of bbc radio, and who better to tell us about them than another legend of bbc radio, ton...

The pips, as they were known, were generated by a swinging pendulum fitted with electrical contacts. so now you could have accurate greenwich mean time literally anywhere that you had a radio. the pips have become legendary, a symbol of bbc radio, and who better to tell us about them than another legend of bbc radio, tony blackburn. archive: welcome along - to the tony blackburn show this morning for this tuesday the ninth of december. my thanks, as always tojohn dunn for swinging us up until th...