Our colleagues on the Media Centre have published a range of announcements and press-related material this week including the forthcoming One Child which is broadcast on Wednesday next week.
Be sure to take a look at a beautifully designed media pack published in advance of the highly-anticipated dramatisation of John Le Carre's novel Night Manager starring Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman.
Radio 2 announced that this year's Folk Awards will be staged at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 27 April 2016. Later this week we announced the nominations. Tickets are available via the BBC Radio 2 website.
A new way of getting hold of news is being tested on BBC Taster. BBC Drop is a responsive website and is the result of a unique collaboration between digital innovators in Kenya and BBC Connected Studio. More information in the accompanying press release.
New 5 Live programming was announced earlier in the week, including a 'real time' broadcast of a post-mortem from an examination room, exploring the importance of carrying out autopsies and how they have led to advances in medical science.
On Safer Internet Day, Newsround survey reveals majority of 10 to 12 year-olds are on social media.
Also this week, there's a new Furchester Hotel series for CBBC, plus an epic new adventure series for BBC Two featuring Steve Backshaw. Our technology programme Click is reaching out worldwide with Spanish-language broadcasts on BBC Mundo. Later this year, the programme will also be broadcast in Uruguay and Mexico.
Following Bill Turnbull's announcement last year that he was leaving the BBC Breakfast sofa, this week saw BBC Sport and Five Live presenter Dan Walker announced as Bill's replacement.
In corporate-related matters, we published our quarterly disclosures on Wednesday. Earlier in the week, we announced that Julia McKenzie appointed editor for BBC Radio Comedy.
November and December BBC iPlayer performance stats were also made available on Wednesday.
Yesterday, Top Gear revealed it's 'Magnificent Seven' presenting line-up. There was also a range of new programme commissions announced by CBBC.
And today, BBC One announced that Gregory Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will deliver this year's Richard Dimbleby Lecture, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death.
Blogs
Last week's round-up included a reference to Charles Norton's brilliant account of the recreation of a missing Dad's Army episode. Unfortunately, it didn't include a link to it. So, we're including it in this week's round-up too.
On Monday, Sian Healey wrote about some of the excuses heard by TV Licensing for not buying a licence. University students have created a series of animations illustrating some of the most surprising stories. There's a quick animation of our favourites here.
Also on Monday, Charles Runcie introduced our local and national Rugby League coverage, and Stephanie Hirst wrote about her contribution to BBC Manchester's People's History of Pop - The Nineties. Listen to the nationwide programmes where the fans share their stories about the music they love via the BBC Music website.
BBC Swahili's presenter Salim Kikeke celebrated his millionth like on Facebook with a special post - One in A Million. Over the past week his page has been liked a further 43,000 times.
Chelsea Dickenson, Content Producer from Audio Always, explained how the Share Your Welsh learning campaign came about.
BBC Studios and Post Production managing director David Conway gave us a look inside the Refurbished Television Centre on Wednesday. Later that evening, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe gave the fourth Brian Redhead Lecutre 2016 at MediaCityUK.
On Thursday, BBC output appeared in nearly all of this year's Broadcasting Press Guild Award Nominations.
Today, BBC Media Action - our international development charity that uses media to help transform lives - scriptwriter Winnie Jaguru wrote about the epic journey that led to South Sudan's radio show Life in Lulu.
We finish the week where we started (in a sense), with Controller of the Online Technology Group Richard Cooper writing about how we streamed Six Nations into space so that British astronaut Tim Peake could watch Scotland versus England match.
Broadcast Highlights
On Sunday, we broadcast the final episode of War and Peaceon BBC One.
BBC Two's Greece with Simon Reeve saw Simon begin his travels in a country he loves, speaking to inhabitants about life after the economic crisis there and refugees as they arrived on the beach in Lesbos.
The second series of Happy Valleybegan on Tuesday evening. Arts Desk reviewed the first episode saying, "At the heart of it all is the splendid Lancashire, incarnating Wainwright’s unarguable position that the world is an altogether disappointing place but we struggle on." Louise Mellor on Den of Geek wrote, "The Alan Bennett of crime drama, Wainwright grounds lurid plots by folding in quotidian detail." Giving it five stars, Michael Hogan reviewed the first episode for The Telegraph under the headline, "No second series syndrome for the superb Happy Valley".
The Express described episode one as "a deftly-written, dark opener" while the Radio Times heralded the series return as "well worth the 18 month wait". Morgan Jeffery writing for Digital Spy concludes, "as with the first series, you can be confident that Wainwright is holding back - and that this second go-around will build and build in the coming weeks, before exploding in spectacular fashion." Christopher Stevens writing for the Daily Mail gave the first episode five stars.
On Tuesday on BBC Four,Addicted to Sheepsaw an intimate portrait of a year in the life of tenant hill farmers Tom and Kay Hutchinson as they try to breed the perfect sheep.
Professor Greenreturned to BBC Three with his documentaryHidden and Homeless, discovering the modern face of homelessness, changing our perceptions of who the homeless are and the harsh reality of their lives. In its last week before it goes online-only, sitcomPullingstarring Sharon Horgan got a long-overdue re-run on the channel.
Lucy Mangan in the Guardian reviewed BBC Two's programme on assisted dyingHow to Die: Simon's Choice, saying "The film gave full range to all points of view and, if Simon’s predominated, it was only by the finest of margins." Gabriel Tate writing for The Telegraph gave the documentary five stars saying that Simon's Choice was "a landmark documentary that navigated a moral, emotional and legal quagmire with distinction while never forgetting the human tragedy at its heart."
Historian Michael Wood embarked on his four episode series tellingThe Story of Chinalast night. Tonight, BBC Four broadcastsAC/DC and the Story of Aussie Rock.
Radio
On Radio 4 former Outnumbered cast member Tyger Drew-Honey starred15 Minute Drama: Halfway Here starring Outnumbered's Tyger Drew-Honey. Halfway Here is a beautifully observed account of a family in meltdown by Lucy Catherine.
Following the death of much-loved DJ Ed Stewart earlier in the year, BBC Radio 2 broadcastEd Stewart - a Tribute. Contributors to the tribute programme included Dame Barbara Windsor, Johnny Beerling, Jan Hunt, Noel Edmonds (who sent his first demo tape to Ed, with great success), Tony Brandon, Bernie Clifton, Zoe Ball, Keith Skues, Johnnie Walker and David Hamilton.
A stage play about Screaming Lord Sutch featured in a discussion on Radio 3's Free Thinkingthis week.
All this week, Greg James 'hard work for Sport Relief has been documented in a special daily live blog cover hisGreg James Gregathlon. Catch-up on his herculian efforts on the Radio 1 website.
And today, the 6 Music Festivalgets underway in Bristol.
