Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2010
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Happy birthday Andy Pandy!
Andy Pandy is - unbelievably - 60 years old this month! The first real star of BBC Children's TV, in his blue and white striped romper suit and odd little tricorne hat, he has survived where others far bigger and far more powerful have fallen by the wayside... So who came up with the idea? Andy ...
A BBC Symphony for Yorkshire - the stage is set
This week the musicians see and hear A Symphony for Yorkshire for the very first time - everyone who has worked on the symphony feels excited and slightly sick as the clock ticks and we get closer to the moment we finally unveil an extraordinary piece of work. The past few days have been hugely ...
Sport Blog - Four thoughts on Two Years To Go to London 2012
"A day of traveling in East London courtesy of a garishly-pink London 2012 bus - part of a fleet taking the media and officials around the Olympic Park - is followed by a day in the office thinking about some of the lessons from the "Two Years To Go" celebrations". Roger Mosey, the Director of B...
The BBC Proms Archive is ready to be explored
New job, first day, first meeting with the boss, first item on the agenda: 'Proms database'. The need to complete this project became more apparent the further we got into it. We all know how easy it is to find out facts about other major events: if you need to know how many matches in the Third ...
Radio 1 and 1Xtra Summer Surgery campaign
Think about what you were like as a teenager. If you were anything like me you probably felt fear towards drugs. You had nervous fascination with alcohol. Your world was probably amazing or it sucked depending on whether you were popular in school or whether you were in or out with your group o...
World Music Archive is launched
Radio is a great and intimate medium. It's with you in the shower, as you doze in bed, as you cook, as you drive. Part of its charm is that what is broadcast at any given moment is gone for ever. There's no going back, rewinding or dwelling. Of course, this has, to some extent changed with the ad...
BBC Mobile Apps go live
Today's announcement that the BBC Trust have concluded their review of our plans to produce native applications for smartphones, means that we are continuing with the launch of apps that we outlined in February. We know that increasing numbers of you want to access BBC output on-the-go and the ...
BBC London 2012 Olympics plan has something for everyone
When we set out on the BBC London 2012 project we had one over-riding thought in mind: to help the nation share the excitement about the biggest event in the UK in our lifetimes. But we also knew we had to pace ourselves. The evidence is that audiences have sharply contrasting views on the Olympi...
BBC receptionist to attend Royal Garden Party
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to recommend somebody from the Workplace team to attend one of this summer's Royal Garden Parties. It was really exciting to hear that Zina Craker, one of our long serving front of house representatives, received the gold embossed invitation and she's now...
Internet Blog - new appeals process for the moderation of blogs, message boards and communities
"Most people who leave comments on the BBC's blogs, message boards and communities will never get a comment rejected by the moderators, and many of you that do will understand why. But there are times when you need more information so you better understand the rules, and there are times when the ...