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Welcome to the bbc.co.uk Homepage Archive. Within this area you will find a comprehensive archive of all the Homepages from July 14th 2005 onwards. You can view how the Homepage changed throughout each day and also view a snapshot of the page at various times, using the Time column. There's more information about the archive here. This was a project initiated on backstage.bbc.co.uk.

This page shows how the BBC Homepage changed throughout the day. It shows the time a change was made and what changed.

Please follow the links in the left hand Time column to see a snapshot of the homepage at that time of day. For more information please follow this link.

17th October

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BBC World Service Trust using media for development: Annual Review (Image shows a goat herder listening to Radio Ethiopia and a group of women making a recording)
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It's Adam and Shelley

See it first online

You can watch the latest episode of the siblings' anarchic brand of sketch comedy online, before it hits television screens.

Shelley Longworth as Miss Lucky Lee and Adam Longworth as Brucie Lee
20:15Search
20:00Sport
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Making the switch

Whitehaven goes digital

Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first place in the UK to switch over from analogue to digital TV.

Character Digit Al in Whitehaven for the switchover
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BBC World Service Trust using media for development: Annual Review (Image shows a goat herder listening to Radio Ethiopia and a group of women making a recording)
18:45News
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Snooker loopy?

Live matches online

Watch the latest action from Aberdeen as the world's top players compete in the Grand Prix.

Snooker balls
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Making the switch

Whitehaven goes digital

Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first place in the UK to switch over from analogue to digital TV.

Character Digit Al in Whitehaven for the switchover
15:25Main
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Snooker loopy?

Live matches online

Watch the latest action from Aberdeen as the world's top players compete in the Grand Prix.

Snooker balls
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Snooker loopy?

Live matches online

Watch the latest action from Aberdeen as the world's top players compete in the Grand Prix.

Snooker balls
15:10Main
promotion

Making the switch

Whitehaven goes digital

Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first place in the UK to switch over from analogue to digital TV.

Character Digit Al in Whitehaven for the switchover
changed to:

Snooker loopy?

Live matches online

Watch the latest action from Aberdeen as the world's top players compete in the Grand Prix.

Snooker balls
15:00Sport
14:40Sport
13:55Sport
13:35Main
promotion

Making the switch

Whitehaven goes digital

Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first place in the UK to switch over from analogue to digital TV.

Character Digit Al in Whitehaven for the switchover
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Making the switch

Whitehaven goes digital

Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first place in the UK to switch over from analogue to digital TV.

Character Digit Al in Whitehaven for the switchover
13:20Main
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Quick guide to Booker

Dazzle your colleagues with your knowledge of the Booker Prize and winner Anne Enright by watching our one-minute digested reads.

Anne Enright with her book
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Making the switch

Whitehaven goes digital

Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first place in the UK to switch over from analogue to digital TV.

Character Digit Al in Whitehaven for the switchover
12:40Sport
12:10News
11:35Sport
  • Bolton part company with boss LeeBreaking news
  • Bolton part company with boss LeeSammy Lee
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    Bluffers guide to Booker

    Dazzle your colleagues with your knowledge of the Booker Prize and winner Anne Enright by watching our one-minute digested reads.

    Anne Enright with her book
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    Quick guide to Booker

    Dazzle your colleagues with your knowledge of the Booker Prize and winner Anne Enright by watching our one-minute digested reads.

    Anne Enright with her book
    10:55Main
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    The Restaurant: Grand final tonight 8pm BBC Two (Image: L-R Contestants Jeremy and Jane, Raymond Blanc and contestants Jess and Laura
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    Bluffers guide to Booker

    Dazzle your colleagues with your knowledge of the Booker Prize and winner Anne Enright by watching our one-minute digested reads.

    Anne Enright with her book
    10:25News
    10:00News
    08:10News
    06:05Main
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    Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection

    Follow the culinary alchemist's quest for the perfect hamburger, Peking duck, chilli con carne, chicken tikka masala and more.

    Image: Heston Blumenthal
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    The Restaurant: Grand final tonight 8pm BBC Two (Image: L-R Contestants Jeremy and Jane, Raymond Blanc and contestants Jess and Laura
    01:55News
  • Lib Dem leadership bids expectedSir Menzies Campbell
  • Migration 'causes pressure in UK'A migrant worker cutting celery
  • 01:05News
  • Sir Menzies tells of 'irritation'Sir Menzies Campbell on 16 October, 2007.
  • Lib Dem leadership bids expectedSir Menzies Campbell
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    00:05TV

    Kristen Schaal as MelFlight of the Conchords

    9.30pm BBC Four

    Flight of the Conchords Watch clip

    Alan TitchmarshThe Nature of Britain

    9pm BBC One

    The Nature of Britain Watch clips

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