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Older domestic British isles audiences usually check with the BBC as "the Beeb", a nickname at first coined by Peter Sellers around the Goon Clearly show inside the 1950s, when he referred on the "Beeb Beeb Ceeb". It was then borrowed, shortened and popularised by radio DJ Kenny Everett.[229] David Bowie's recording periods at the BBC have been int