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It's time to adjust your wavelengths... After seven years we are closing the BBC Genome Twitter account. Thank you for all your tweets and comments. For future updates on Programme Index twiddle the dial to @BBCArchive or check us out at genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

@AlanKelloggs @BBCArchive We're just no longer updating Louis.

It's time to adjust your wavelengths... After seven years we are closing the BBC Genome Twitter account. Thank you for all your tweets and comments. For future updates on Programme Index twiddle the dial to @BBCArchive or check us out at genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

@jessicacadams You can also email us at GenomeFeedback@bbc.co.uk for further help and advice.

@jessicacadams Jessica, the search box at the top of the home page with the message "What are you looking for?". If you type "Basil Adams" there (in double quotes) you will get a list of Radio Times credits for Basil Adams - who was a BBC producer, if that is the right person?

*Drum roll* BBC Genome has grown up... please say hello to Programme Index! Now you can browse 10 million listings, watch or listen to more than 200K playable programmes and browse early editions of Radio Times - all in the same place. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk

@Nickda1 That is something we would like to do long term but it is not likely to happen in the immediate future, unfortunately.

@bbcgenome will there be any more decades of radio times scans added?

@dan_hcr Sorry about that Dan. At the moment the database is taken from Radio Times and electronic information that basically starts in 2007; we are not able to add information not in RT before that date at present, but we do still hope to be in the future.

@bbcgenome How come CBBC on Choice still isn’t listed, I was promised years ago it would be

@HMHB19 @finlaydavid From June 1988 - genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2b7d80caacae4f…

@finlaydavid @bbcgenome When was Columbo shown on the Beeb?

@MixedRaceSpur Thanks Andrew. Unfortunately at the moment we are not able to add actual rather than scheduled programmes, though we hope one day we will be able to do that.

@bbcgenome Genome is great. But it still doesn’t include schedule changes made at the time. I’m thinking of “Borsalino” in particular.

@vk2bea We wish we could add these listings Michael, unfortunately it is expensive to scan magazines, and we would need to find loose copies rather than bound volumes for the scanning to work. The new data on Programme Index is from an existing database which makes it easier to source.

@ollybenson Hi Olly, thanks for pointing this out - we're having a look.

@Delverie Thanks for your feedback Andy - we're looking at this.

Dear @bbcgenome … I am sadly finding your new search interface unusable on my iPhone as the buttons vanish off the bottom of the screen and it won’t scroll.

Programme Index gives us a rich timeline of the BBC's historical broadcasts from 1923 to the present day. Big thanks to @AndyArmstrong for piecing the massive jigsaw puzzle together and to @mrstth for building the new look.

Programme Index contains all the content of BBC Genome, but with added data to bring the listings up-to-date. For a bit of background and to find out more, read our blog here: bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/ar…

Author Dorothy L Sayers was born today in 1893. Among her works was the ground-breaking religious serial The Man Born to Be King, for Children's Hour in 1941/2. She is pictured here with Robert Speaight, who played Jesus, and producer Val Gielgud. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fa9f96626a8b4a…

As Euro 2020 is finally set to begin, the new Genome blog by guest blogger Paul Hayes looks back to the first international football tournament covered by the BBC - at the 1948 London Olympics... bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/e…

Writer Michael Abbensetts was born #onThisDay in 1938. He created the Birmingham-based BBC Two drama series Empire Road in 1978, which featured on the front cover of Radio Times the following year. You can browse his BBC credits here: bit.ly/2Qm5WHY

Prudence Kitten, who first appeared in children's television today in 1950, was another puppet friend of Annette Mills, following Muffin the Mule. The show came from the newly opened BBC Lime Grove studios. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8f3c6f22f1ae44…

From Whitsun 1936, this classic H.M. Bateman cover heralded a week of holiday programmes... Read the whole magazine here: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/5a230197b…

Hit or Miss? Juke Box Jury, based on the US series of the same name, began on BBC TV today in 1959. A panel of four celebrities gave their verdict on new pop records, with the ever-suave David Jacobs as host. genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/570932868d9c44…