BBC2 is marking its 50th anniversary next month with a satirical look at its history through the eyes of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, a special episode of the ground-breaking comedy Goodness Gracious Me and a tribute show featuring Ricky Gervais, Michael Palin and The Goodies.
The treaty will come into legal force 90 days after the 50th country has ratified it perhaps as soon as the end of this year.
The Forth Bridges Festival, part of the Year of Homecoming 2014, is occasioned by the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road bridge – a worthy milestone that falls just a week or so short of the independence referendum.
The Bafta TV awards will recognise the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who on Sunday night – but the BBC1 programme is one of several big-rating shows that failed to win a nomination, along with Downton Abbey and the bawdy sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys.
Organisers said the strikes, scheduled a day after the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and a few days before Labor Day, were being held in 60 cities and had spread to the south – including Tampa and Raleigh – and the west, with workers in Los Angeles and San Francisco taking part.
In spite of 17 productions at that theatre, her work – like that of many other female directors – barely featured in a retrospective for its 50th anniversary.
"The series is iconic, an international phenomenon and an historic institution – so when I arrived at Lancaster University, I was surprised a society didn't exist!" He says: "The 50th anniversary of the show was approaching and my uni was nearing it's 50th year, so I developed a six-month plan to create a society for Whovians".
Lindsey got to pre-approve everything, and she'd only told them no twice, she said – to a blog about how much she's looking forward to Lady Gaga's upcoming jazz album ("I like Lady Gaga, but I'm not really excited about her jazz album") and to her tribute to Disneyland on the occasion of its 50th birthday: "Happy Birthday Disneyland!
Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the film, told from the British perspective, is inescapably dated and politically incorrect: Caine's character refers to the enemy as "fuzzies" and the recruits on his own side as "cowardly blacks".
Now the novel is once again stirring up strong emotions, with the publisher Faber accused of portraying the book as glorified chick lit through its design for the book's 50th anniversary edition.
Fans of the novel were outraged that a similarly bold cover has not been used to mark the 50th anniversary.
