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The Pope's Visit 2010
On the morning of 28 May 1982, an Alitalia 727 aircraft touched down at London Gatwick airport. Minutes later Pope John Paul II knelt down and kissed the tarmac. What followed was an historic and demanding six-day tour of the UK that gripped the nation, and dominated the news both in the UK and...
Post MacTaggart Q&A with Mark Thompson
BBC Director General Mark Thompson answered questions at the Edinburgh International Television Festival today as delegates reflected on his James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture last night. In an hour-long session, Thompson answered questions from Channel 4 Newscaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy and from ...
The Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival - a press round-up
The 35th Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival is underway: below is a round up of the highlights of the first two days: The first day's line-up included a lively 'Build Your Own BBC' session, chaired by Jeremy Vine, the panel featured Ash Atalla, MD Roughcut TV; Alex Conn...
The Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival
The Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival begins today. It's a huge fixture in the TV Industry calender and key figures from the BBC will be speaking over the next few days. The Festival is developed by senior industry figures, providing an arena for the international TV...
Bitesize and GCSE results
It's GCSE results week, and for 700,000 16-year olds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland it's a real rite of passage, marking the end of their statutory schooling, and a decisive milestone on the way to either continuing education or the world of work. Class of 2010 did better than any previou...
A new home for the BBC Archive
A warm balmy afternoon in July 2007 had erupted into a fierce-some thunderstorm. Looking out across West London from a 3rd floor window in the Broadcasting Centre, the doom-mongerers were in full force. "Not looking good out to the West", said one and then embroidered his forecast by musing "I r...
BBC Genome: The Complete Broadcast History of the BBC
Most people know that the BBC does not have a copy of every programme it has ever broadcast. The main reason for this is that when broadcasting began it was seen as an ephemeral medium, and there was no way to record and store what was being transmitted. Although it became possible to record p...
In Their Own Words: British Novelists, from the BBC Archive
This week we've published the latest of our archive collections, In their own words: British Novelists, a selection of interviews with modern writers drawn from the BBC's archive. The collection includes a radio interview with Virginia Woolf from 1937, an astonishingly erudite encount...
Asian Network's London Mela
The video above shows Imran Khan performing 'Amplifier' on stage BBC Asian Network has reached more than 500,000 British-Asians in the past 12 weeks as part of our 'A Summer Of Melas' season. I'm pleased at those figures. That's a significant proportion of the entire British-Asian population re...