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Round up week 11 (10-16 Mar)

Hannah Khalil

Digital Content Producer, About The BBC Blog

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Easter from King's

A round up of BBC announcements, press releases and blogs, plus some highlights from our TV, radio and online output last week.

Easter programming on the BBC

We have announced a variety of new and returning religious programming this Easter, to mark the most significant and holiest of times in the Christian calendar across BBC television and radio.

Appointments

The BBC has today announced that Kerris Bright, currently Chief Marketing Officer at Virgin Media, will take up the new role of Chief Customer Officer.

Announcements and blogs

Drama

The media pack for Come Home a new Danny Brocklehurst drama coming soon to BBC One was published.

Factual

BBC Two announced on Friday that filming has begun on Mother’s Day, a new factual drama for the network about the events, aftermath and public response to the Warrington bombing of March 1993. Casting includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Vicky McClure, Daniel Mays and David Wilmot.

Children’s

A new animated tale, Nadiya’s Sports Day, launches on the CBeebies Storytime app on Wednesday to celebrate Sport Relief 2018.

News

In a drive to combat fake news the BBC has launched BBC iReporter, an online interactive game to help young people in the UK identify ‘fake news’.

Sport

BBC and ITV stars are set to go head-to-head on water for Sport Relief. On the high seas of Salford Quays, famous faces from BBC and ITV are set to battle it out in a Clash of the Channels Boat Race for Sport Relief.

Digital/iPlayer

Crime drama McMafia has made digital audiences an offer they couldn’t refuse, as the show leads a record-breaking start to the year for BBC iPlayer.

Music

BBC Young Musician, the UK’s leading contest for young classical musicians celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2018 with a host of special activity including a special BBC Four documentary, a new series of podcasts, an exciting line-up of presenters and judges and the first ever BBC Young Musician Prom.

Elsewhere, on Friday BBC Music announced The Fringe, a creative and comprehensive 10-day outreach programme which will take place in the lead up to The Biggest Weekend - the BBC’s biggest ever celebration of live music across TV, radio, online and mobile happening on the late May bank holiday weekend.

Radio

BBC Radio 4 announced it will mark a year out from Brexit. On 29 March, with one year to go until Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union, the network will broadcast a number of specialist programmes under the theme Britain at the crossroads.

Elswhere, travel presenter Lynn Bowles  is to leave Radio 2 on Thursday 29 March after 18 years on the network.

National

Experts from across Scotland gathered in Glasgow on Wednesday to participate in the BBC's prestigious Expert Women programme.

Meanwhile, in Wales members of a choir for people with dementia and their families have been given the chance of a lifetime thanks to this year’s Get Creative Festival (17-25 March 2018).

International

On Monday it was announced that BBC World Service and Norway’s NRK are joining forces on a major new podcast-first production, Death in Ice Valley, which will investigate the mysterious death of a woman in Norway in the 1970s.

Meanwhile, for the first time in our history, the BBC is making an appeal to the United Nations in Geneva to protect the human rights of BBC journalists and their families. This unprecedented move comes in response to years of persecution and harassment by the Iranian authorities, which escalated in 2017.

In addition, the Director of the BBC World Service Group, Jamie Angus, has called on the Iranian authorities to stop the harassment of BBC Persian journalists in London and their families in Iran and appealed to the authorities to discuss any grievances they may have about the BBC Persian service coverage.

Blogs

James Purnell considered recent audience data across BBC Radio and Education content in BBC Radio and Education – how are we doing?; plus BBC Three's Miss Holland Eline Van der Velden wrote about The Era of Short-Form Content. In addition we rounded up BBC wins at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2018 and published the BBC iPlayer Highlights 17-23 March.

Broadcast Highlights

Sir Bruce: A Celebration

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