Blog posts by year and monthOctober 2011
Posts (12)
Proposed Changes to Local Radio
News that there is to be a Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall tomorrow (Wednesday 26 Oct) on the proposed cuts in BBC Local Radio should come as no surprise to those who understand the passion radio engenders in the mildest of audiences. It's worth remembering that not so many years ago, Ra...
Do you remember the time: Discoveries from BBC Genome project
One of the many joys of working on the Genome Project has been uncovering the connections we have with the past, the BBC and its broadcasting output. Here is a small selection of stories we have unearthed over the past few months. Collections of time Wallace Grevatt was an avid collector of ...
Can I get that on DVD?
We're always looking to find better ways to make the BBC's back-catalogue of programmes more discoverable by our audiences. Last month I wrote here about BBC Four's move into curating online themed collections of new and archive content, and their launch collection Army: A Very British Instituti...
Why the BBC won't censor its archive
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there" - the famous quote from LP Hartley's novel "The Go Between", could well apply to some of the holdings in the BBC archive. The BBC has exciting aspirations to open up its vast archive and place as much as it can online, as Roly Kea...
Giving something to the young people
Editor's note: Journalist Jacqueline Eyewe is deputy editor of Live, an online and print magazine produced by and for young people. We asked her to write a review of the Radio 1 Teen Awards. With performances from Cher Lloyd, Jason Derulo and, of course, the scream machine generators - One ...
Marketing and Audiences settle in at Salford
Autumn is here and October sees a new season in the Marketing and Audiences function based at BBC HQ in Salford. Our newly established Media Engagement team officially started operating out of MediaCityUK on the 3rd of October. This is includes teams who are planning and managing our promotional ...
The new BBC Archive Centre at Perivale
The BBC Archive Centre at Perivale The BBC archive was for some years housed in a building within an industrial estate in Brentford. Eventually this building became unfit for purpose and to ensure the protection of the history within it my team and I drew up a plan to re-house the collection...
BBC Genome update: Search, discovery & access
Navigating the BBC's Broadcast History My dad is a physicist, working in quantum field theory, and he introduced me to the work of Richard Feynman at a very early age. Feynman is probably the most famous physicist after Einstein (though younger readers may prefer Brian Cox) and he managed to m...
The future of British television comedy in the north
Eric Morecambe, Glenda Jackson and Ernie Wise in 'Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show' (1972) 'Hello, my darlings'. The first television words I ever remember. Spoken by the pint-sized comic Charlie Drake. It could easily have been Captain Mainwaring's 'Stupid Boy', courtesy of the immortal A...
We Tell Ourselves Stories
Pictured: Delia Derbyshire, an electronic music pioneer who worked in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and wrote the Dr Who Theme music. Being Controller of Archive Development at the BBC has given me the opportunity to explore not just our own extensive archives of TV and radio programmes, photo...
