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Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.

The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.

Shirley Gee 's first radio play, Stones, was produced for BBC Radio 3 .

Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader on British television (BBC ); the job lasted only six years, though she acquired an enthusiastic public.

More people in Britain held licences for colour television sets than for black and white: the licence fee continued, to fund the BBC .

Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee , was produced and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 .

BBC Radio 4 broadcastShirley Gee 's Bedrock.

Shirley Gee 's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC 's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.

In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.

The Local Government Act came into force in Britain, containing the highly controversial section 28, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality.

The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the journal of the BBC , ceased publication.

Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence , and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...

A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.

Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.

The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.