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Searching the World Service Archive: Other times, other lives
Marsha Dunstan
BBC Genome
BBC Genome now has more than 7,000 live links to World Service Archive programmes to listen to on iPlayer. We take a look at some of our favourites.
Advent Calendar Day 23: Watch Wogan on Christmas Day
Get ready for the festivities with this 1984 Christmas Day episode of Wogan from the BBC archive.
Advent Calendar Day 17: A Christmas Carol
Watch a 1962 operatic adaptation of Charles Dicken's tale.
New on Genome: Purchase programme
Introducing a new feature on BBC Genome - direct links from our listings to being able to obtain a copy of the programme you are interested in.
Genome hits another important milestone
Susannah Stevens
10,000 Programmes now available through BBC Genome from BBC online sites.
New content added to Genome!
We've added a whole host of previously 'missing' listings to the Genome database, including music details and full entries for sports programme Grandstand. Why were they 'lost' and how were they pieced back together?
On This Day, 1950: Television crosses the Channel
The first outside broadcast from France was made on 27 August, 1950.
Over To You: the quest for available BBC programmes
Ana Lucia Gonzalez
BBC Genome
Since we first started linking from BBC Genome listings to radio and TV programmes available on the BBC website, you have been helping us find real archive gems to link to. Do you have any other suggestions? Or have you found any particularly interesting listing or programme that you would like ...
A 2,000-mile journey through the Zambezi
In August 1965, David Attenborough took viewers on a 2,000-mile journey along the Zambezi river from its source in the centre of Africa to the Indian Ocean. 50 years later, you can watch this series on the BBC iPlayer.
Watch and listen to 8,500 programmes on the BBC website
Susannah Stevens
Today, any BBC Genome user can sift through millions of listings for BBC radio and TV programmes from 1923 to 2009. What if we told you that around 8,500 of these programmes are also permanently available online to watch and listen to?
