'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether (Private collection)

The great character actor Alastair Sim, born #OTD in 1900, photographed by Don Smith for Radio Times.

Yesterday once more... A date for your diary. The Magic Roundabout Story, the excellent 2003 documentary, is at 7pm and an episode at 8pm on Saturday 18 October on BBC Four. Photo of narrator/writer Eric Thompson by Don Smith. More soon from Radio Times #Boing!

Captain Mainwaring tries to get to the bottom of Jones's chaotic accounts in High Finance, an episode that first aired #OTD 50 years ago. Radio Times

"Bernard Cribbins was up there at the very, very top, I think his performance was quite extraordinarily good." John Cleese talking to Radio Times about the guest-star who played Mr Hutchinson in the Fawlty Towers episode The Hotel Inspectors, which first aired #OTD 50 years ago.

Life is an open book if you open your eyes and look... Happy 50th, On the Move! The adult literacy series, starring Bob Hoskins and Donald Gee, was written by Barry Took and the sunny theme tune was by The Dooleys: youtube.com/watch?v=FuVmT6…

Looks like the Queen of Hearts got her minions to paint this tree... but no, a Japanese maple at RHS Garden Wisley.

The Jackanory story #OTD 50 years ago was A Stranger at Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston, a children's novel for which she won the annual Carnegie Medal. Ronald Pickup was the storyteller that week. Radio Times

The Goodies episode, Rome Antics, was set in 55AD Britain #OTD 50 years ago. When it was first shown on BBC Two earlier that year, Radio Times learnt that the filmed sequences were storyboarded first.

The fun boy three.

Who put the magic into The Magic Roundabout? Find out in Radio Times's 60th birthday celebration of a children's classic... radiotimes.com/tv/drama/magic… #MagicRoundabout #TheHerbs #TheWombles #Paddington #PostmanPat

Happy birthday to Katy Manning 🎂. Photographed by Don Smith for Radio Times in 1970 during rehearsals for the #DoctorWho story The Mind of Evil. KatyManning Official welcomes you

Alan Bates starred in the Play for Today, Plaintiffs and Defendants by Simon Gray, #OTD 50 years ago, and was photographed by John Timbers for the cover of Radio Times.

I got up at 5am for this painting, walking along the Thames at dawn looking for the right composition. I had a clear idea to capture the sun rising over the river, and I was lucky London’s fickle weather complied. "Blinding Sunrise, Chelsea Embankment", 73x54cm, oil on linen.

Celebrating a quiet and shy genius, the animator behind The Magic Roundabout, The Herbs, The Wombles, Paddington and Postman Pat: radiotimes.com/tv/drama/magic… Radio Times Joseph Wallace Tom Sanders Animator

The reason I was desperate to see so many of these films...

Remembering the brilliant Tony Hart, who would have been 100 today. He encouraged so many of us to paint and draw. Photographed for Radio Times in December 1976. #VisionOn #TakeHart #Hartbeat

"Fun and laughter is what we're after..." Wishing Brinsley Forde – Spring in Here Come the Double Deckers! – a happy birthday 🎂🚌

Radio 3 celebrated Robert Graves's 80th birthday with an interview #OTD 50 years ago – Radio Times featured his new poem.