Blog posts by year and monthJuly 2018
Posts (25)
What does it mean to ‘broadcast British?’
This blog, which originally appeared in Ariel, explains how BBC History has launched the fourth release from its Oral History Collection, showing the way staff at the BBC created programmes for a diverse and multi-cultural audience following the Second World War.
BBC Soundstart 2018 - the Carleton Hobbs Bursary & Norman Beaton Fellowship
It's that time of year again: BBC Radio Drama’s (((soundstart))) winners' event.
BBC iPlayer Highlights 21-27 July 2018
A quick round up of what's new this week on BBC iPlayer, programmes that are about to become unavailable, plus some hidden gems you might have missed.
We need an industry chart for UK podcasts
We need a conversation about how we get an industry standard chart for podcasts - one which includes as many of the different ways that audiences are consuming podcasts, where we can all see all the data, and know how it’s been collected.
Pioneering sounds and breaking disability barriers: BBC Proms 2018
We have a big focus on women composers, and on living women composers particularly this year, but what we’d forgotten was that within our own midst the BBC Radiophonic Workshop had these extraordinary people who were pioneers, in Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire.
Round up week 28 (7-13 July)
A round up of BBC announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output from the last week.
BBC iPlayer Highlights 14-20 July 2018
A quick round up of what's new this week on BBC iPlayer, plus programmes that are about to become unavailable, and some hidden gems you might have missed.
'The best thing I ever did': the story of an Autumnwatch, Winterwatch and Countryfile apprentice
If you’d have told me last year that by now I’d have moved to Bristol and worked across some of the BBC’s flagship programmes I’d have told you, politely, not to say such crazy things.
How the BBC stays safe in the world’s most dangerous places
The BBC High Risk and News Safety team has its origins from the time of the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s, when the war’s easy accessibility led to a lot of journalists, many of them freelancers, getting killed or injured. There was a need to do something more systematic to make this safer.
Round up week 27 (30 June - 6 July)
A round up of BBC announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output from the last week.