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to public finances after weeks of turmoil. now on bbc news, click. this week, we are celebrating 100 years of the bbc in 23 minutes. we will 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. my favourite pip is always the last one. lara watches tv with friends. i guess the idea is we re not actually meant to be in the same place. and in the quest for greener energy, 0mar discovers a tasteless fluid called water. it goes in your mouth and then disappears? today we are literally stepping into history. we are at alexandra palace and this place has seen it all. that s the studio in there. 2022 marks 100 years of the bbc. goodness me. what began with a single radio transmission has transformed into a global broadcaster. in that time, it has covered the biggest events of successive generations, working to inform, educate and entertain the nation. and throughout those ....
is now under control as protests continue . now on bbc news click celebrates the 100 years anniversary of the bbc by looking at some of the technology pioneered by the bbc, which has transformed the world of broadcast. today we are literally stepping into history. we are at alexandra palace and this place has seen it all. that s the studio in there. 2022 marks 100 years of the bbc. goodness me. what began with a single radio transmission has transformed into a global broadcaster. in that time, it has covered the biggest events of successive generations, working to inform, educate and entertain the nation. and throughout those hundred years, the bbc has been pushing the boundaries of broadcasting, embracing and sometimes even creating the latest technology. 100 years of broadcasting. it is amazing when you think of it. you don t look a day over 30. and this studio in alexandra palace has a very special place in bbc history. in 1936 the bbc television service was launched rig ....
the new uk chancellor, jeremy hunt has been in talks with prime minister, liz truss as they consider further changes to the mini budget that had been the centrepiece of her economic plan. 48 hours into thejob, mr hunt has made clear nothing has been ruled out on taxes or spending. he also said the prime minister is in charge. some of her own mps are continuing to criticise her though, and are calling for changes to her team and they re questioning whether she can remain in office. here s our political correspondent ben wright. behind the doors of the prime minister s country retreat, liz truss met her chancellor not unusual in normal times, but these are not. jeremy hunt has been sent in to urgently rewrite the government s economic plan. so who has the power now? the prime minister is in charge. really? i think it is important that when you talk about ditching things, the biggest element of that mini budget was the energy price guarantee. some tory mps think liz tr ....
however, it was the coronation of his daughter that really brought television into our homes. 70 years later, many millions of us watched the queen s funeral on smart tvs, phones, laptops, or on huge screens around the country, demonstrating just how far technology has moved on. now, if you are a fan of radio, i mean, really a fan of radio, then you will know what this is. pips. they are called the pips, and when you hear them, you will know it is something o clock. i find them quite soothing. but have you ever wondered why they exist? ships. the pips tell ships what time it is and help them navigate. at the height of the british empire, britain had a lot more ships than anyone else anywhere in the world and their maps all needed to follow a strict format 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 the local time at the meridian and h ....
service was launched right here on this spot. performers and orchestra would have been here. and a huge camera here! she sings. and what viewers saw was this. this is adele dixon performing with the bbc television 0rchestra. she is singing a song called television, which was written especially for the opening night of. ..television. it was broadcast to viewers across london and the home counties through the transmitter on alexandra palace, marking the beginning of what was then referred to as high definition television. yeah, don t laugh. before that, television was just an odd fuzzy experiment to small selected audiences. and behind the scenes there was a bit of a battle going on. see, the bbc had actually opened up two studios at alexandra palace. this, studio b was a mechanical system which was made byjohn logie baird and it produced an image like this. meanwhile, in studio a, they were trialling an electrical system by emi and what they would do is they would altern ....