Our achievements for the year and our vision for the future.
Our achievements
Sherlock
The third series launched on New Year's Day 2014 with an average audience for the first episode of 12.7 million and 3.6 million iPlayer requests, making it the most requested drama on iPlayer to date.
The Fall
Commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland and set in Belfast, it had an average series audience of 4.3 million, the largest for a BBC Two drama series in the last ten years.
Winter Olympics
Our coverage of Sochi 2014 reached 33.7 million people, higher than any of the previous three Winter Olympic Games.
Great British Bake Off
The final achieved the biggest BBC Two audience in over 10 years.
New Year's Eve Fireworks
The biggest television audience of 2013.
Britten 100
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and reached an estimated 1.1 million listeners on radio and requested 97,957 times via iPlayer in the UK.
Radio Drama
Radio 4 aired over 600 hours of drama, including a Scottish season featuring four original dramas about the Stuart dynasty and dramatisations of three novels by Sir Walter Scott.
Whilst as part of Radio 3's celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, we broadcast Anthony and Cleopatra in full, starring Sir Kenneth Branagh and Alex Kingston.
Glastonbury
For the first time, there were live-streams from the six key Glastonbury stages giving over 250 hours of coverage, reaching a total television audience of 19 million and with 12.1 million requests for live and catch-up content online.
Local Radio
Great dedication was showin in its reporting of the floods and in its passion local sport. BBC Local radio also rightly performed strongly at the Radio Academy Awards with Gold Award wins for BBC Tees, BBC Three Counties, BBC Norfolk, BBC Ulster and BBC Lincolnshire.
World War One
To coincide with the start of the BBC's World War One season we launched BBC iWonder - interactive guides designed to unlock the learning potential of all BBC content. Meanwhile Jeremy Paxman's programme, Britain's Great War, was the BBC One factual series with the highest score of the year for helping audiences learn something new.
The Wrong Mans
The highest audience for a comedy launch on BBC Two in seven years, with an average of 4.5 million viewers for the opening episode.
New iPlayer
Available on over 1,000 different devices and serves 10 million programme requests a day.
Biggest commitment to the arts in a generation
We committed extra funding for BBC Arts programming, appointed strong leadership for the arts, and re-launched BBC Arts Online as well as The Space, our pioneering online partnership with Arts Council England.
CBBC
The My Life documentary series continued to challenge and celebrate our young audience with real children living extraordinary lives.
Apps
BBC apps have been downloaded over 57 million times.
A year of change
We are building on strong foundations to take the BBC through to its centenary in 2022, putting the right policies in place to ensure that we are more efficient, representative, fair and innovative.
A new top team
A new leadership team is in place at the BBC bringing together the best of talents from inside and outside - with new non-executive directors bringing a huge breadth of experience.
A new strategy
We set out a clear ambition for the BBC to the end of the current Charter with a focus on quality, innovation and efficient.
Respect at work
We want zero tolerance of bullying and a culture where people feel able to raise concerns and have the confidence they will be dealt with appropriately.
Women on air
We committed that by the end of 2014 half of BBC Local Radio stations will have a woman presenting the high-profile Breakfast shows. Other prominent appointments include Mishal Hussein on Today, Ritula Shah on The World Tonight, Carrie Gracie as the BBC's first China Editor and Gemma Cairney on Radio 1.
Cap on severance pay
Severance pay has been capped £150,000 and where staff resign or are made redundant they are expected to work their notice in full.
Contributing to the community
Through our own charities and partnerships with others, we have helped raise £84.5 million across the year.
Birmingham
We are revitalising our presence in Birmingham with a focus on digital skills and talent development.
Apprenticeships
We are delivering on our commitment to have 1% of the workforce as apprentices.
