We are all about Birmingham at About the BBC towers this month: first it was announced that the city will be the home of the next BBC Music Awards, then Citizen Khan took over with the launch of the new BBC One series. And this week we visited The Mailbox, the BBC’s Birmingham base, where BBC Director General, Tony Hall, cut the ribbon on the BBC’s Blue Room there, a space that shows off all the content and innovations in technology available from the BBC, as well as the latest trends – and what’s more it will be open to the public.
Ed Grundy (Barry Farrimond) and Roy Tucker (Ian Pepperell) from The Archers cut the ribbon to open BBC Birminham Blue Room to the public, overseen by DG Tony Hall
Tony also announced a partnership between BBC Birmingham and Birmingham Repertory Theatre (The REP) to find a local Birmingham Writer in Residence who will work for six months across three BBC dramas that are produced in Birmingham; Radio 4’s The Archers and Home Front, and BBC One’s Doctors. The lucky writer will also be named as The REP’s Writer on Attachment.
The depletion of this display of special Blue Room launch cupcakes was nothing to do with us. Honest.
On a busy Birmingham trip, the DG also popped over to the BBC's new digital innovation unit The Digital Guerrillas, based in Fazeley, to launch a pilot scheme on BBC Taster to find the next generation of content creators.
